Pros
- Pays relatively well - Free lunch and snacks (pre-pandemic) - Below VP level there are some very talented and wonderful people that you are lucky to meet and work with. People care about each other and about the work they do. - Good benefits
Cons
- What all the other reviews said - Leaders care more about profits and looking good for investors than the well-being of their employees. - One story: The same day that 20+ employees (mainly in product/engineering) were laid off for alleged covid/budgeting reasons, the HR team told us in an all-hands meeting that Blink is still hiring for product and engineering roles, and encouraged us to refer any friends whose jobs may have been affected by the economic situation. Completely tone-deaf (why yes, I actually know about 20 people who were just laid off for covid/budgeting reasons, what a coincidence!). It was a funny and very sad example of how the HR & leadership teams seem to live in their own separate fantasy world. - Constant turnover, whether from layoffs or people choosing to leave. Often these departures are not announced, and you only find out when you see that their Slack account has been deactivated. This is obviously bad for morale, but even if we pretend we're all robots who don't care about our coworkers, knowledge about this industry and about the history of our product is so important. Without that context we make worse decisions and break things more frequently, and seemingly simple tasks end up taking double or triple the amount of time and effort.