Abridge

Great NYC office, fantastic product that is growing rapidly, happy customers, some very smart engineers and product managers, truly "AI Native" not just in name only, and good salary and benefits for the size of the company. The mission is to help doctors, and the team genuinely cares and is aligned on the mission.

An extremely low quality codebase. There are no standards or shared infrastructure, just wild west coding and enormous amounts of slop code that doesn't work. Leveling is broken; many Junior and Senior engineers dramatically outperform the Staff and Senior Staff engineers. There is lots of churn in engineering—being here 6 months is considered high tenure—which contributes to a blind-leading-the-blind vibe in many core components of the software system.

Prioritize building a platform for engineering to build products on top of instead of pushing to "move fast" only to create broken code and data systems that take longer to get to production ready than if you slowed down and built them right the first time.

Stop lifting up slop cannons and instead build solid foundations that unlock high velocity development on actual working products.