Pros: I've been at 7 other companies before now, and I can tell you that the culture at Amplitude is the best yet. The leadership (both middle and upper) are definitely focused on people first and the work second. Time and time again Amplitude has been accommodating to various needs of mine from a full 12 weeks of family leave (as a man, that's a lot!), to being flexible with childcare needs for my kid who I do not want to put into daycare during this pandemic. They are compassionate and supportive. Also, I feel challenged in my day-to-day work and have a clear career development path.

Cons: I'm having to dig deep here, but if I had to name any cons, it would be the maturity level of the customer success organization. Our post-sales teams (customer success and professional services) operate more like a company that's 2-3 years younger than we are. Our CS leaders are aware and diligently working to up-level these teams, but I'd name that as one "area for improvement" since I'm required to name something, haha.

Pros: Good work/life balance, great funding/runway/security, high bar for engineering employee quality.

Cons: Strategy seems to be decided by people with no experience in trying to build what they want Amplitude to become. Too few people with domain knowledge make too many big decisions. There are very few people with the actual background and knowledge to build something that will provide focused value. The founders and executives don't have the DNA to make what they think they are making. It's a lack of culture. Everything feels really disconnected, which makes it hard to focus long-term and invest yourself. Also, did you even think about how cringeworthy a lecture about racism was coming from white employees?

Pros: Company is becoming IPO ready kudos to Sales and Marketing The Sales teams are doing a great job.

Cons: Engineers generally have a miserable and chaotic life Leadership is not building for the future, mostly focus only on the short-term No QA team. No standard on testings. Nada Ship fast = ship now + test later On-call means fire-fighting, patching and working around the untested stuffs Little regards to security i.e. every new hire downloads a snapshot of the production database to their Mac. Everyone has access to almost everything. People had accidentally deleted things in production.