Pros: - The company's product and the day-to-day work is substantive, and Deepgram is building a product that has real value for the world; as employees, we can feel this because we're not building a silly app, and the challenges before us are not trifling. - There is still more work to do than people to do it, and as employees, we have a great deal of individual ownership of the projects we work on; this can be either empowering and liberating, or stressful and lonely, depending on one's personal needs and motivations. - Deepgram is still a startup, and hence still needs to be extremely nimble and responsive in the face of events and developments in the software (particularly the AI) world; this can be either fun and exciting, or disorienting and frustrating, again depending on personal needs and motivations.

Cons: - Remote work; Deepgram's employees who are spread out geographically, and there are few opportunities for in-person work and collaboration; when you work with such awesome people, it sucks not to be able to break bread together at lunch, or have a beer after work. - The pay that isn't as much as it would be for similar positions at big tech companies.

Pros: - A transparent company; - the energy that is fun and exciting; - good base, bonus, and stock; - remote first; - a talented engineering team; - good if you like Rust, Linux, and working with GPUs.

Cons: The company is in the midst of growing from 50 to 150+ people, which brings along a lot of growing pains. We are figuring out how to structure teams, how to communicate, and the correct level of process.

Pros: Great culture, lots of intellectual research, and gratifying work in the voice model and agent space.

Cons: Hours can be long sometimes.