Not a Unicorn - A horse with a thorn taped to its head
Pros
There are some good people at the company who really are trying their best and you can build some lasting relationships depending on what team you're on. The benefits are good and the pay is close to on par but on the lower side. Lots of flexibility with work from home and I never had PTO denied
Cons
The board and exec team are a mess, they never planed to not IPO by now so they are grasping at straws at this point. The company has absolutely no money because they threw VC out the window for years with no regard for profitability and no safety net for failure and now that they are having to extend their IPO runway its the employees that are paying for it. They make rash decisions and then back track weeks later, its a completely reactive approach and very clear they aren't thinking more than a few weeks ahead. Communication is non existent. They used to be an employee focused company, they just aren't anymore. In earlier years you were rewarded for good work, now you better be careful if you're too expensive. Doesn't matter what you've done for them, everyone is a number and they will do what they have to (even though its a result of their decision making.) It's a total boys club - Continuously myself and my female counterpart were called out, questioned, and asked to do things that our male counterparts never were. A particular VP was misogynistic, egotistic, immature, and disrespectful/gaslighting to literally everyone.....Whats worse - this individual was complained about to the CRO as well as HR on multiple occasions by multiple people and not a thing was done. 4 layoffs in 4 years, 3 of which happened in the last year. You do not have stability there. They will end up being acquired by Samsara - they can't beat them on big deals and are slowly but surely losing their market share, no way anyone would give them another round of funding either so IPO seems like a pipe dream now