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Startup with a ton of potential

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Chegg for less than 1 year
April 3, 2010
Santa Clara, California
4.0
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Pros

Ability to communicate with management. The organization is flat in many of the right ways. Chegg recently brought on name-brand executives (a plus), yet you can still have your voice heard by anyone, which helps employees get the resources they need.

Excellent use of a wide range of technologies within engineering.

Inter-department collaboration is increasing.

The food.

New office location is far better than the old office.

Cons

Interviewing procedures have improved but are still rough around the edges.

Innovation is great for growing companies, but if too many ideas get the green light, you end up redoing or scrapping things later on. You can still move forward as a company while putting the brakes on a few more things.

Churn tends to happen post rush. Find ways to reinvigorate the staff.

Advice to Management

QA performs wonderfully but is under-resourced.

Release schedules are overly ambitious; scale things back.

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