Pros: Great team and work culture. Highly talented engineers. Our suggestions are heard by the team.

Cons: Nothing I can think of.

Pros: - Product is loved by customers. - Amazing colleagues. - Well capitalized.

Cons: - Frantic pace. - Low compensation, unlikely you can retire if the company is widely successful.

Pros: In stark contrast with my previous FAANG job, there's zero red tape, politics, or BS. We get to start from scratch on a lot of things using the latest tech. My eyes are so much more opened to the best-in-breed open-source ecosystem out there than they were with the duct-taped internal DSLs and tools that some of the NIH big tech companies are penchant towards. The tech challenges are deep, and we have a lot of ownership on the design. I still learn a lot through code reviews and sharing design docs. The leads are all early Google and Facebook employees who seem to have done a good job preserving battle-tested engineering practices without the rest. I'm learning so much about how valuable businesses are formed. I'm feeling so much better prepared for my own someday. It's a fun group of folks to enjoy lunches and offsites with.

Cons: * Lose too much in poker games. * Unplugging can be a challenge, but overall, not that different than larger tech companies.