Some growing pains, but lives up to the hype overall - Technical Product Manager Origami Risk Employee Review

5.0
Mar 17, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

I was skeptical it could be as great as the press and internet says, but so far I have no complaints. Management listens and there is an extremely high degree of autonomy entrusted to the teams. Recruiting focuses on hiring talented problem-solvers with varied and strong technical skills at every level. Issues are acted on swiftly and transparently. The prevailing culture embraces iteration, meaning mistakes are expected but kept small as possible, and improved as we learn.

Cons

This company is growing at light speed and breaking into many markets at once. Ambiguity on best practices (especially since the software is intentionally so flexible) and a big distributed employee base can be hard for people who need more structure. There is a huge emphasis on client satisfaction which can lead to a do-anything, never say “no” attitude that might make sustaining the growth pace even harder.

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Pros

The only pro of this company is the fully remote work (which also comes with its cons).

Cons

It’s a long list: 1. Micromanagement 2. Politics 3. Promoting long time buddies (with no skills) over skilled young professionals. 4. Ignoring company values when it comes to internal mechanics. Suddenly things aren’t important enough if it doesn’t make you money. 5. Complete misalignment between sales, product and engineering. They sell everything that’s not even in the pipeline for product. 6. The CPO and VP of Product are circus heads, not real professionals. 7. People with different opinions aren’t appreciated. 8. Slack and Outlook tools are monitored for status and location just to come up with any reason for layoffs. 10. Base comp is okay at first but then capped strongly.

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