Pros
- Enormous market opportunity and vision
- Strong talent throughout the company
- Strongest performers are generously rewarded, weakest colleagues are shown the door
- Bleeding edge technology, excellent engineering talent
- Well funded with large investors
- Flexible scheduling, generous PTO, understanding of work-life balance issues
- Exercise groups over lunch hour
- Office perks like open air environment, snacks, beer, ping pong, shuffleboard
If you can handle the ups and downs that inevitably come with being a young company in a brand new industry, this company is the place for you. The company has always had a leading edge strategy and has been consistently ahead of the competition and marketplace on when to pivot, what to build, and how to position the products and capabilities. As any entrepreneur knows, that does not always translate into immediate and direct success or stability. A lot of the negative reviews on glassdoor come from individuals that were hired when the revenue and client base was growing consistent and there was an overriding sense of security and stability. Unfortunately there are going to be bumps when you are trying to fundamentally change an industry as large as marketing. When those bumps hit, they surprised and spooked a lot of people. Many of those folks have left, some of their own accord, some because the business had to pivot, and others because they were not strong performers. The upside is that the team has gotten stronger, more nimble, and more focused as a result of the turnover.
And fundamentally, the underlying technology is second-to-none. There have been massive investments in research and development over the last couple years that have finally positioned the company to take off in a major way. It has been a long road but the company is in a place to turn a lot of the marketing world upside down. The future is exceedingly bright.
Cons
- Ups and downs in revenue and client sales as the market and product matures
- It's not easy being in an infant industry
- Currently at an awkward size culturally, too big to have the perks of a small company, not big enough to have the perks of a large company
- Tendency to bite off more than can be chewed in product development