Mission driven, awesome, autonomous product team - Software Engineer Presence Employee Review

5.0
Feb 9, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Product team is incredible - great people who trust each other. You're trusted (and expected) to get your work done, have it be high quality, but how you do it is up to you. Managers specifically "protect you" from distractions and obstacles, you can work from home 1 day or so as needed. Really great. - Company is very mission driven and upper management solicits feedback and listens. They really put people first. - Company is doing really well - great future here

Cons

- Growing pains of any startup - scaling challenges, some bureaucracy creeping in, a bit more financial focused at the moment so I want to make sure we keep the culture I joined for.

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