Pros: Great culture, work, and cutting edge

Cons: An intense work environment at the place.

Pros: AI-first company; high innovation; responsibility and growth are there for the taking.

Cons: Very immature leadership; one is trying to gloss over any and all employee concerns with "just work harder - that's how we win". The other does not care about humans whatsoever - all product all the time. If you don't like it then leave. The culture is "when in doubt, fire the person" - margin for error or professional growth is nonexistent. Everything that is slightly contrary to the "everything is great" narrative is quickly shut down, hidden and removed. This goes for employee concerns about comp, discussions about competition in the market, and even down to the HR team reading glassdoor reviews (hi there!) and asking employees to post good reviews. Never bring up any hint of work life balance - even the discussion about having a personal life is frowned upon.

Pros: Great degree of ownership and flexibility, with very few barriers or red tape. I feel that I can solve really hard technical problems and have good links to the business and users to really see the impact my work is having. I'm given a great amount of flexibility with remote working and very few scheduled meetings. It's very unique to be working in a company with a strong research component, both to see cutting-edge releases but also to be able to work with tools/APIs literally no one else in the world has.

Cons: There is a high expectation to work hard, and engineers will frequently work evenings/weekends. Nobody will force you to, but the culture is certainly there to do this, mainly as everyone really cares about what they're working on and wants to see it succeed. As a startup, there are clearly pieces of infrastructure that are still to be set up/built. This is great at times as I can work on things from first principles and really understand how they work, though there are also times I miss the efficiency of knowing a system is already in place with owners that I can just use, as you would see at a larger company.