Pros
- super ambitious goals - gain experience in blockchain and fintech - you can bond with your coworkers over how miserable you all are Really inspiring to hear the head owner talk about the company's goals and ambitions, but the day-to-day work becomes so frustrating you will be looking for a way out very quickly.
Cons
- pay/benefits are well below market rate - incompetent leadership: these guys have no idea how to run a software company - "loyalty" valued over skill, performance, or competence. "trust" is cited as the single most important quality, and yet no employee is trusted. - super strict work hours, 8am-5pm no exceptions, even salaried employees must clock-in/clock-out - no one knows where the funding comes from, super secretive, which is pretty shady. enormous amounts of money are spent on everything EXCEPT employee happiness/compensation It was immediately clear how unhappy the existing team was from my first day on the job. People do not feel valued or respected, despite making real sacrifices for the company. Basic hardware was not provided for things like mobile testing, even installing the necessary software to do basic tasks becomes a huge headache. The PM has no idea how to manage deadlines and constantly over promises to the owners, leading to everyone on the team stressing out ALL THE TIME. Everything is so secretive and people are always whispering in offices while devs work in isolated cubicles with no idea of what's going on. The minutes and hours crawl by and you can feel the despair in the air.