Coursera

Coursera is easily one of the best startups at its size, given that it's only 2 years old.

They have doubled down to get a highly focused management team and are starting to show some impressive numbers in terms of revenue and user growth.

The engineering team consists of some of the smartest people I've met. Many of them are ex-Google, Facebook, LinkedIn employees and/or early students of Andrew & Daphne from Stanford.

They follow great engineering practices and have some very experienced people that will mentor you here.

They have a pretty unique Scala+Play stack, which is a pleasure to work on and plenty of interesting high growth projects in the pipeline.

The company is expanding like crazy, with plenty of new faces joining every week.

They also have a fun, quirky culture that really eases the stress of working at a high growth startup. Very much work hard, play hard.

The social mission of the company is also spectacular. You can't complain when you work with really smart people and contribute to an amazing cause.

It's a startup. While they treat their employees well and pay competitively, the perks and benefits are understandably not quite the same as Facebook or Google.

Better communication between the engineers and the rest of the company (Partnerships, BD) would be appreciated.