Small company comp/benefits, big company BS
Pros
- The mission is real, important, and prioritized by leadership. Some decisions, such as small dollar lending, are long-term bets that fit the mission but aren't expected to have any material business payoff in the next few years. - A lot of smart people and interesting challenges
Cons
- Extremely heavy process around quarterly planning, and re-planning. Hard to get anything done with so much bureaucracy. This process gets worse every year. - Eng leadership cares more about optics than impact. Hitting dates and predictability is higher priority than big swings. Risk taking is strongly discouraged. - Eng leadership is unempathetic about workload - or anything really. And unrealistic about expectations. - Flexible time off is a marketing tactic, not real. Hard limits are put in place at the VP level, who have to approve PTO. - Used to be competitive on pay until the stock dropped 90%. Attempts to pull people out from underwater on stock have not been competitive, encouraging people to leave and rewarding newcomers. - Layoffs are putting talented engineers' jobs at risk. - Very low DEI in Eng
