Ambition Is Supported, Encouraged, and Rewarded - Product Owner Enodo (IL) Employee Review

In the past years at Enodo, I have been in contact with many challenging problems to solve. I have had to learn, experiment, and collaborate with an exceptional and diverse team. It was the opportunity to pack much more experience in that short timeframe than I would have thought was possible. Everyone can wear various hats, allowing them to attack problems using different angles. When working on a complex feature, we can follow the entire problem-solving process as a team: from proposing an idea, prototyping a solution, the databases, implementing the logic, designing the interface, and analyzing how it is being used in the product and iterating. People are heard and participate in improving processes, feedback is always welcome. There is a good pace for sure, but we are encouraged to keep a good work-life balance.

In a small team of fewer than 20 people, you must be willing to take initiatives and identify the next steps by yourself. Some global objectives are set but there is no one actively pushing you and telling you precisely what to do for the day.

Great team: because the team is so small and focused, everyone gets along really well. Help is never more than a desk away, and each team member bring a unique and essential skill-set to the operation. Location: right next to Union Station, Chicago. Only a three minute walk from the train and surrounded by good lunch spots. Independence: within my first week, I had code going live to the CEO of the company, but I never felt overwhelmed by responsibility. If I had a good idea, it was my job to make it happen (with help if I needed it). Fun: office has a ping pong table and often cake or donuts. Team goes out together about once a month to just hang out.

Great expectations: because the team is so small, each member is often expected to do a great many things. In my summer there, I did front-end, back-end, api maintenance/updates, UX/UI design, cloud computing, machine learning, and even some web-tracking. This may very well not be a con, it's just true. Often disjointed: because of the range of tools being worked on, many are developed in different ways, so context-switching between them can be rather difficult. This is helped by the fact that the developer of that code sits within 10 feet of you.