Anduril

Anduril is a company that will give you many opportunities for high ownership. You can walk your own path, as there are many, and drive huge amounts of impact across a multitude of teams and products. This is a great company for those of all experience levels to grow their skills.

If you'd rather be siloed in your work, or work a cushy 9-5 while not being given ample opportunity to experience and learn from many failures and successes, then this is not the company for you. If you're someone who is highly autonomous and can execute on their work when required, this is your place – we'll quickly recognize these traits early on and it'll be worth it.

Come join us. We're building some insanely cool stuff, and we're only expanding upon new areas to explore and experiment with.

The hours can get ridiculous at times, and it does not always come without cost. The compensation model is not competitive. That's not to say the upside potential won't be ridiculous in a few years. We definitely cannot compete with top tech companies when it comes to cutting offers.

Compensation is lagging, given that many of the larger tech companies are realizing that employee retention is actually a problem (it's becoming quite hard to hire talented engineers).

Larger tech companies are offering way more than they were even just 2 years ago. I'm not saying we should do the same, but we should consider the shift in the industry and what it may mean for future recruiting pipelines, as well as our own employee retention.