Pros
- The people. They are the smartest I have worked with and challenge me to be better each day. The best tech talent in Richmond. - Leaders preach mindfulness, gratitude, “take what you need”and self-care, which is refreshing in this world of go-go-go. We work hard, but we are constantly reminded take care of ourselves. The gym reimbursement is physical proof of this. - See a problem? Fix it - No one will hold you back to fix or build a new process or prove out a new technology that can make the firm better. Raise your hand, get some buy in and go. - Leadership visibility - you constantly see, interact and work with leaders from the company - there is no hierarchy. Titles only matter for LinkedIn. You might sit next to the CTO one day, have lunch with the CEO the next. - Leadership really listens to employees. They constantly are asking employees for feedback, ideas on how we can be better, ways to improve our culture. One example is a recent shift from MS Teams to Slack after employee feedback. Another ex., initially the remote work policy aimed for 3 days in office, 2 home. After feedback from employees looking for more remote, leadership changed the policy to allow for 3 remote per week, and you can choose when those days are. - Company lunch each week to meet colleagues and foster culture - Modern, collaborative office in Richmond opening this year - Huge growth goals - want to be apart of something big? Then join us.
Cons
Typical mid sized start up things: - Onboarding could be more structured to allow better understanding of goals by department, tools, processes, where and who to go to for what, org structure. We have all this but seems you need to find it on your own. Ex. I do not really know the overarching goals or what each department controls or does. For the benefit of everyone this information should be clearly defined/updated on a cadence somewhere for folks to see. Maybe we have it and I am unaware! - Fast paced style can leave out room for interpersonal connection ex. Small conversation in meetings, catching up in hallways etc. I think we can improve here so our people take time to check in with one another when a meeting starts. Or value more the interpersonal “hallway” moment to try and get to know your colleague vs rush to the next thing. - Can be difficult to focus or get things done when in office, but I know they are working on ways to improve here.
