Pros
You work with some of the most passionate people you’ve ever met and everyone is open to making sure you can do your job well. It’s a very great culture. Most of middle management is very open to helping newer in career people get the types of experience that they want, assigning projects that are interesting and manageable, but still challenging to help you grow. It’s a challenging but very engaging and supportive working environment. Pretty decent benefits and an great PTO offerings. Work-life balance is also great. Work definitely can come in waves, but overall, it seems most people, especially the analysts, have manageable workloads. The flexibility is also a nice benefit. It’s a highly remote company and it’s always okay if you need to log-in early or late or step away from your computer. Most of management recognizes life happens and we are all still human.
Cons
The biggest con I have witnessed is pay. Pay is not as competitive as anticipated, and although I have not gone through an annual review for pay increases, I have heard from multiple people that the structure and increases that are offered leave a lot to be wanted. There are a lot of growing pains of shifting from start-up to being an established company, but I find it a fun part of the job. In addition to this, it seems pretty hard, especially for analysts, to rise in the ranks. They have a career track from analyst to senior analyst, but don’t really tell you what comes after senior analyst and it appears very uncommon that senior analysts get promoted after that into higher roles.