Pros
- Management is genuine and truly does care and takes care of their employees (even when I got laid off, I got treated pretty well). - The Co-CEO's, Doug and Trevor are excellent human beings, they only created GoodRx because they wanted to do something good and this company is the best way they could express it. - Lots of flexibility and amazing work/life balance. There are a few folks that are 100% remote and they are very fair about it. - Excellent mission-driven company with an amazing business model that aligns with helping people save money on life-saving/critical medications. It's very rare that a company can do good and be successful at the same time. - Most people are pretty nice and kind. - People are rewarded for doing hard and good work. People are open to listening to new ideas regardless of your title or seniority level for the most part. - An amazing place to work if you're an engineer.
Cons
- Design is not taken seriously as everyone says it is. The fact that the design team reports straight to a product management team is organizationally wrong (in a modern tech company) and prevents any opportunity or autonomy for designers to do more than just make "pretty" interfaces and clean up messes from product management. Design never had the opportunity to bring GoodRx's product to the next level, it was often limited by decisions by product management. - The level of talent and skill in some recent hires are questionable, especially when you compare it to the skill and talent of many folks in other tech companies. - Silos, people are nice and smart at GoodRx, but it never felt like there was cohesion or a lot of collaboration in general. - Remote office/work challenges. Working out of the San Francisco office, it often felt like SF was the orphan child that no one cared about or forgot about. Often felt like we were left out of conversations, it was definitely a common feeling amongst those in SF. - The company is still trying to branch out (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), so there are challenges and constant shift in priorities and directions as GoodRx is branching out horizontally into other markets. - While upper management (Doug and Trevor) are great, middle management is the opposite. There is definitely bickering and politics amongst people leading different organizations (especially product management). You'd think a smaller company would have less politics, but I thought wrong here.