Pros: Friendly crew, team-dependent experience.

Cons: Messy codebase and bad tech debt

Pros: Also, a great mission; working on science is cool. And lots of examples of internal mobility, both sideways and upwards (e.g., CX -> PM, eng IC -> EM).

Cons: Planning processes are still maturing, so there's some process churn and timelines can be tight.

Pros: The caliber of the people here is outstanding -- truly some of the kindest, funniest, most curious, and smartest people I've ever worked with. And this is across all functions: engineering, product, customer-facing, marketing, sales, etc. More specifically, this is an exciting time to be part of Benchling's product and engineering teams. We've recently picked up executives from the top tech platform and biotech firms, who really understand the value of building for long-term success. There are lots of great scaling challenges, and we have been given the budget to really invest in the right solution. Add to that some stellar teammates (see above), and it makes for a fun place to hammer out some 1s and 0s.

Cons: As you can see from other reviews around this time (and hopefully this will be seen as a historical artifact), departments outside of product and engineering are in a transition stage. New management and rough market conditions make for some stressful times. High pressure, office politics, etc. This sucks.