Pros
- Snacks - Good health insurance - Decent dental and vision - Unlimited vacation (bitter sweet I only took a week off) - Remote flexibility - Nice sunlit office - Convenient location - I learned a lot in my brief time there. The challenges were at times immense but getting through them made me better at my job and more hirable for my next gig - Standing desk upon request - Packed stationary closet - Emergency deodorant if you were having a smelly day - Lots of happy hours and free meals - Smart and fun colleagues - My immediate boss was amazing. A real advocate and incredibly intelligent
Cons
I experienced more discrimination at this work place than any other place I have worked - After some transparent conversations it became clear there were pay discrepancies solely based on my social identity - All the people of color were either fired or left my immediate team during the course of my time at the company - At one point I was the only person of color on my team and I was treated very differently than my white counterparts, unfortunately. I was given a disproportionate amount of responsibility without appropriate acknowledgement. Instead, I was berated or reprimanded by upper management in front of my teammates - The company as a whole is struggling deeply. In the months I was there the CTO left, the founder/CMO quit out of the blue without saying a word, the newly appointed CMO quit, the VP of engineering quit, the most tenured workers all quit. The CEO is a sweet kind man but with the upper management being so unstable I don’t know how long the company will be around unless there is a radical shift in revenue and management Some stats and facts from the most recent layoffs that I calculated, 10/4/2018: - 100% of queer women of color were laid off - 50% of queer men of color were laid off - 50% of the women engineers were laid off - 1/3 of people of color at the company were laid off - Of the total recent layoffs 75% of the people were from a marginalized group in tech No 401 K match