Deepgram

• 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.

• 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.

By way of a nod to some other reviews here, communication at Deepgram is not awesome, and I think the company stands to gain from some effort (and maybe even training) in this area; I think, though, that there is a difference between un-honed skill and plain incompetence, between preoccupation with a million concerns and genuine indifference to the human element -- Deepgram may be guilty of the former, but certainly not of the latter. Perhaps this can and should encourage people who are skilled in communication to join -- you'd be able to contribute enormously, and your value to the company would not be overlooked!