Brex

Employees all have a growth mindset and work hard. The company brings on tenured and proven leaders at the C-suite level. Investing in AI across the whole company. Cash compensation is good, given our cash/equity model (but rumors of it moving in a new direction).

Work-life balance is very bad.

There's a constant state of urgency and unreasonable deadlines. Many of my colleagues are burnt out, and it's a consistent theme since I've been employed here. I've heard that's how it's always been since Brex started.

Systems are not the most reliable, even though we're in the finance space, which causes a lot of distractions.

Our valuation of $12B is severely overvalued. Realistically, it's close to $4B-$5B.

The IPO is far away and will take a lot of improvements to our product and business to grow into our earlier valuation.

There are limited growth opportunities career-wise since we are not growing as an organization that much.

There's a revolving door at the senior leadership level.

The remote culture makes it hard to develop lasting and genuine relationships. Due to the pace of execution, most relationships and conversations are transactional.