Pros: Lots of opportunity to take strong ownership and spread your influence. The remote culture is good. The people are awesome.

Cons: Management is insistent on certain ways of working, which can be good and bad.

Pros: Compensation is pretty good, and it is fully remote. It is great for someone who only wants to code in exchange for money, nothing more.

Cons: Over my two years I have seen so many managers come and go through the revolving door that it's no wonder morale is at an all time low. Personally I have been passed on from manager to manager every few months for over a year. Stand-in managers simply paid lip service; and I felt they never really cared much at all. Recent cost cutting measures have forced the company to backtrack on some very recent promises, causing trust issues among employees.

Pros: The core technology is interesting. Most of the regular ICs are super friendly. If you are interested in ML, this is definitely a place for that.

Cons: CTO has the inability to work with anyone who disagrees with him. Massive micromanaging in engineering and a massive disconnect between the number of product engineers and the company's product ambitions. Technical leadership has no platform vision and everything is hacked together. If you didn’t work at TellApart or Twitter, don’t expect to last long if you have any sort of opinions on roadmaps. Long term company vision makes no sense and is constantly changing. No willingness to actually try to do things differently. Relentless criticism and pressure from customer facing teams. Consistent negative feedback loop. Benefits are below industry average and the company retroactively changes employee compensation programs. Just don’t work here. You will be overworked, underpaid, and completely and utterly under appreciated.