Acorns

• Data-driven
• Empathetic
• Good work-life balance
• Good talent (I feel technically challenged by peers)
• Great managers (praise in public, critique in private)
• Down for community outreach
• Documenting every aspect of what I am doing and need to do to get promoted
• Frequent performance and feeling reviews
• Champions my personal missions and embraces diverse thinking

• Heavy reliance on QA.
• Scared of deployments.
• A little too many meetings for a place trying to move quickly.
• The Portland office is a little cluttered.
• I feel a bit disconnected from coworkers at HQ.
• A little worried regarding hearing about "meeting runway" recently.

Empower and encourage teams to write more integration and e2e tests.

Begin a plan to embed QA as engineers so that testing and quality assurance can be part of the normal dev cycle, rather than an unscalable gate-keeper.