Pros: Product team is strong Customers love the product

Cons: - Do not take risks - Codebase has lots of bandaids and no major initiative to address the architecture as a whole.

Pros: The offices are good. Company events are ok.

Cons: Braze is an average company with low pay and enough middle managers to run a government. Marketing moves faster than the product. I've seen talented people leave because they're sick of the political circus or answering to managers who don't understand the work they're supposed to evaluate. Their AI initiatives over the past year haven't inspired much confidence. Generating images for slide decks is not the ceiling, managers. Plug in a few LLM agents into the platform is not innovation. Managers just don't seem to get it, you just need to know when is time to take a step aside. Can they still land clients? Sure. Inertia buys time. Would I bet on them surviving the next AI wave with this management? Absolutely not.

Pros: * Truly inspiring lunch vendors * Very transparent all hands, managers, and overall company culture * Took a while to become agile, but the engineering management took many employees' advice to heart and took it on. Very streamlined and easy to get things done. * You're given LOADS of time to work on personal projects through hackdays and general technical leadership

Cons: * A pretty high profile departure from our culture/outings leadership has left a noticeable void. The new folks are trying, but have some big shoes to fill! * Lots of new faces at the company but seemingly less ways to mingle with them. See the above point.