Good work-life balance, but the Engineering Organization mostly fails to drive essential changes
Good work-life balance, but the Engineering Organization mostly fails to drive essential changes
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Good work-life balance.
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"Unlimited" PTO is nice in theory, but it's really just an accounting gimmick to avoid payouts of accrued vacation time on employee exits.
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Management seems to genuinely care about the well-being of individual contributors.
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The CEO genuinely seems to care about the well-being of employees.
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Very challenging collaborative environment.
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Most work is OKR-based, and yet alignment justification is very weak. Top-down objectives seem poorly interpreted through the common "telephone game" signal degradation.
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Very limited opportunities for grassroots contributions.
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Failure to embrace systems automation.
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Embrace systems automation
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Embrace grass-roots project work generation
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Discard consensus requirements for proposals
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