Pros: - Great team - everybody was working hard but not excessively so. Work-life balance was very valued. - Short shipping cycle - new features were shipped every week and had direct impact on the product.

Cons: - Feedback was seriously lacking. Since there was no "direct" hierarchy in place, it was often tough to get good feedback on your work. - Office politics. Since there is no transparent feedback process, it was unclear how promotions were taking place, and those seemed random. - Intransparent hiring policies. It seemed to gear mostly towards ensuring some kind of diversity (whatever definition that entails) and not actual technical skill. - Leadership. The CEO doesn't have good skills to actually manage and provide a direction for the company. There doesn't seem to be a common goal.

Pros: - Interesting problems to solve - Smart individuals who put company KRs first above their own personal gain - Quick growth

Cons: - Some teams hard to tie impact to company outcomes. - Not AI native (yet).

Pros: The people are by far the highest quality out of people from any company I've worked with. On average, the technical strength is significantly better than, e.g., Google engineers, and the sheer empathy, understanding, and friendliness of people is somewhat unmatched at any other company. Work/life balance is outstanding for a startup. There is no pressure to work extra hours. Management is very experienced and empathetic. Culture is extremely inclusive and diverse. It feels like management genuinely cares about making people feel welcome and included with their coworkers. Work is extremely high-impact. The work feels like it is affecting the company as a whole. Personal growth rate is very fast. Because of the amount of ownership you get, you naturally pick up skills from everywhere in the company. There is very little politics and bureaucracy due to the size of the company. There is very low overhead to making a genuine impact. Company trajectory is very positive. It feels like we are becoming the leader in the UI/UX design software market space.

Cons: - Work is somewhat less structured than you would get at a large company (think less meetings/presentations and more informal 1:1 chats). - Product has a high level of technical complexity – good or bad depending on what you're looking for. - It is still a pre-IPO smaller company, so stock compensation will be more volatile (higher risk/higher reward than a larger company).