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Really smart and generally nice/enjoyable colleagues.

Benefits were pretty good.

Able to travel some.

The super high-growth environment when I started was exciting and energizing at first. My first year or so, I couldn't imagine ever working anywhere else, but it all went south.

Massive and quick hiring, endless budget, and uncontrolled product offering/strategy spread led to lots of chaos, exec favoritism/cliques, org silos, product non-interoperability, territory grabs, and inexperienced and unsupported management promotions causing a lot of unnecessary conflict and drama.

There is a lot of change still settling there. It could turn out well now that there seems to be a bit more intentional corporate structure, but if you are interested in working there, really interview your hiring manager critically.

I still believe strongly in the core product offering and wish them success, but it came with A LOT of extra headaches that were not worth it for me. I love solving hard product problems, but when you don't have the support of the organization and your own management to actually achieve that, it was time for me to go.