Pros
The company is growing extremely fast in every dimension. The quality of the team is constantly increasing as more and more intelligent and accomplished people are joining Ethos. The majority of the growth has happened in the last 15 months and everyone has done a great job in scaling with the growth in terms of people and processes. Every single team is constantly getting better and better in its execution. In engineering, some really senior engineers from really solid companies have joined and working hard on not only shipping features fast but also upgrading our tech stack, infrastructure, design system, data, security, etc. There are still pains but given the size of the team, everyone is doing a phenomenal job in scaling with this crazy growth. The leadership team takes in a lot of feedback and is constantly adapting culture, strategy, and tactics based on the feedback. This is clearly a tier-1 startup and I am excited to be a part of this.
Cons
Things are growing very fast, which is bound to bring some chaos adjusting to this growth. The company takes a lot of bets and sometimes when these bets do not pan out, it could be disheartening. The infrastructure, processes, and communication is still evolving and needs more work to continue to scale with this rapid growth.