Apigee reviews about "smart people"

Cons come from your outlook on life. If you believe that autonomy, sphere of responsibility and power over your own influence are valuable assets in a job, then there are no Cons in Apigee. If you need traditional trappings of corporate inertia like hierarchies, titles, 1:2:1's and peer reviews, then Apigee will be a mine-field of Cons for you, and you should stay away.

- You must be self motivated, as it isn't a massively structure environment

You must be very self motivated and self-directed. We expect that employees will seek out context and identify ways to have impact within their teams but also across the company. If you are someone looking for a highly structured environment and/or someone that requires lots of day-to-day direction and hand holding, You will quickly feel lost at Apigee. You must be self aware and check your ego at the door. It’s the only place I’ve ever worked at where I can have days that I’ve felt incredibly productive yet I’m still feeling like I fell further behind. No job is too small regardless of what your career experience has been, so get ready to get your hands dirty — there is never a shortage of tough and interesting problems to solve, but fortunately we are surrounded by lots of smart and thoughtful people to help.

Environment may be too fast paced for some. Gained some weight due to the generous snack cupboard...

You must be a self starter, have the understanding of what it takes to get the job done or you will be quickly lost.

High turnover with what appears to be of no concern from management (arrogance). Sales leadership attitude- if you don't like it, get out! Territories are not clearly defined within each region- new reps beware, you may be told you have a region however, other reps have already cherry picked accounts within that region and you get the remainder..

-Very top-heavy. Too many managers/directors/VPs - There are about 15 people doing product management for such a small firm. Too many directors in Insights ( when the product barely makes 2 million in revenue ). This is not an engineering driven firm. -Tons of bureaucracy. The CTO is very smart but is not allowed to provide direction. Very few technical managers who have the chops. Most of the managers are there to monitor scrum meetings and mumble on customer calls. -Devops is fearful of deploying anything new in production. There are lots of meetings to discuss new frameworks but very little sees the light of day because devops vetoes most new stuff. -Lots of developer churn. This is why you keep seeing job postings on Linkedin. -Massive equity dilution. Expect a high reverse stock-split at the IPO. If you have not seen the S-1 filing, you should. Only managers and above stand to make even a few 100k. The rest of the rank and file will not see much.