Pros
Few smart and experienced people at the leadership level. Flex legacy is still paying off. The CEO was able to strike a deal with an SPAC which (if successful) would give the comany some additional runway. Work life balance in the software org could be great if you could are willing and able to fake it. Nobody seems to care or cross-check since there are either no deadlines or they are always expected to be missed. Decent base pay. Equity is probably worthless.
Cons
Crowded marketplace with competition from highly entrenched and deep pocketed players with decades of experience and head start. The company does not have any unique home grown technology and is merely an integrator in my opinion. The business model(s) keeps on changing every few months. No clear strategy for a software product. The so-called software product is developed by a "core team" in israel that probably has never developed cloud software before (imo). Software product definition is held hostage by the core team and hardware team(s) and dictated by tight deadlines for custom projects. Years of engineering effort are wasted on development without verifying basic proof of concepts that meets the requirements. Highly flawed technology choices are not corrected due to ego and politics. Bro culture and nepotism from the top down. In the software org, its only a matter of time before you would realize that almost everybody is a relative or a friend of somebody else at a higher position from prior life. There are camps of ex-companyA, ex-companyB. Managers continue to promote this nepotism and fortify their camps by forcing hiring decisions by persistently reminding that a candidate is a referal/friend of an existing employee. Unless you are aware of this hidden network, you would not even know what hit you if you didn't get along with somebody or have professional disagreement with someone. There is a 3 dimensional chess going on between US Team, Israel Team and Hardware Groups(s). If you either don't know how to play that game or don't want to play, be prepared to be the sacrificial pawn. Constant infighting and turf war between the israel team(s) and US teams and zero collaboration. Infact people are intentionally misled, misinformed and taken for a ride. The israel team which is considered "core team" almost exclusively communicates in native language outside of normal/open communication channels (personal instant messengers) and treats the US team as an unnecessary expense. The hardware teams (integrators) treats all software teams as unnecessary expense and want to eliminate them. Hence no collaboration. A VP who had identified these issues and tried to take action was unceremoniously fired and ended up taking along half the engineering team with him. Tech stacks are selected based on turf protection rather than on product/architecture requirements or a any strategy. CTO keeps on posing for marketing videos but otherwise has no say in enterprise architecture. A three year old company already has a baggage of very incompatible versions of "legacy" software that needs support. There is NO AI or Machine learning technology or strategy thereof. Company offers options as equity with highly uncertain valuation. Health plans are the worse in the industry. If you are looking to join a software company and hoping to build something from scratch in a startup environment or even a pre-ipo company to make a quick buck, look somewhere else. This is not a software, robotics, AI or machine learning company. Its a systems integrator. *All of above are my personal opinions
