Clay

I'm a month into my time at Clay and I've been very happy.

The vibes are good.

Diverse team of smart, pleasant, and creative people, and there's a sincere sense of community here.

Clay treats employees well in a lot of small ways that add up, including competitive pay.

So far so good.

Typical startup-y things. Teams don't know what each other are working on, and Product hasn't figured out how to bridge the gaps. Our external engineering brand hasn't caught up with the cool work that we're doing. Major decisions get blocked on leadership.

In my short time here, I've noticed that a couple of major decisions in different parts of the org have been blocked on leadership. The solution is probably to delegate better and empower lower-level folks to own larger decisions. Also, we need to invest in our engineering brand. I ran into a top-1% engineer yesterday and told him that I was at Clay, and he said, "What's that?"