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Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Apptio for 4 years
October 8, 2013
Bellevue, Washington
4.0
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Pros
  • Excellent work-life balance for engineers.
  • Top-tier people: the best I've ever worked with.
  • Challenging domain.
  • Phenomenal opportunity to succeed. It's the first startup I've worked in where the question was "how big?" not "if?"
Cons
  • Still figuring out its culture.
  • Often too focused on success and not enough on fun.
  • Communication issues across teams and between management.
  • Slower than normal career growth due to an extremely high number of experienced engineers.
Advice to Management
  • Invest more in fostering teams.
  • Keep the hiring bar high; it's one of your greatest assets.
  • Provide more opportunities for leadership, even if you don't have the positions to move people up.

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