Pros
Access to good tools, company makes money, relaxed atmosphere for the most part. Building is nice and it’s mostly quiet which means you can get work done. Our CPO is a well respected professional and many of the VPs seem to be really decent people leaders.
Cons
I’ve seen some stuff here at Entrata, both good and bad over the last few years. But lately it’s just painful to be in R&D, particularly eng. Its clear our CTO is not only disliked by his peers but also increasingly so within his own engineering department. Pushy, bully, know-it-all, user, favoritism are all ways I’ve heard him and his behavior described. Hard to stay knowing you could be the next person pushed out to help the CTO accomplish his objectives or clean up a mess he made. You don’t need leadership experience or expertise to lead some of his teams. He just has to like you for whatever reason. Not a great way to gain trust among your teams. Input isn’t valued, big decisions get made on his whim and if you push back, you are out. His ego simply can’t handle it. The last 3 years in eng have been a slow decline and that stinks because it was a decent ride for awhile.