Pros: - My understanding is that everyone at the company receives equity, which is amazing. - Everyone gets 30 days vacation per year, and not like that so called "unlimited" vacation that cuts into your pay. - Senior leadership, managers and individual contributors strive to get everyone to use their vacation. - I've received a raise every year without asking for it. - I've worked here for two years, the first raise was slightly higher than inflation, the second raise was a promotion and was much significantly higher than inflation. - The senior leadership is astounding. - They truly care about the people of the company. - Very transparent. - Regularly held all-hands meetings where anyone can ask them anything. - Work with high caliber people. - My experience is that 99.9% of the engineers are non-junior, probably 90% have noticeable leadership qualities, and I think something like 25% of them could be a highly successful CTO. - In my previous jobs I've found myself to be close to the front of the pack talent-wise. - But at Grafana, it would be a stretch to consider myself middle of the pack. - Being surrounded by so many super-talented people has taught me so much and has made me far more capable. - Everyone works remotely from around the world, and this has many obvious and nuanced benefits. - High level of autonomy. - Managers do not outrank engineers. - In fact, it's more likely to be the other way around. - Grafana is lead by engineers through and through. - Also, I want to say it gives me so much joy to watch our sales team work. - They're high-energy, strategic, and very respectful.

Cons: To me, there are no cons.

Pros: - Grafana has really smart, encouraging and passionate people who really strive with their work and are always willing to help. - There is a strong leadership team that is thoughtful, humble, transparent and that provides clear direction. - You get a constant feeling that leadership wants to see you succeed and definitely has your best interest at hand. - You are provided with all the support for your continued professional and personal development and growth. - It is a great product, working with an amazing community. - It is a remote first company.

Cons: I guess, working fully remotely might not be for everyone, however Grafana as a remote-first company has great processes in place.

Pros: - remote culture (though they've stopped hiring in regions where they don't have legal entity - therefore only a couple of countries fall within their range) - wide variety of products (IRM, AI, Alerting, Dashboards, K6) - you can also request transfer to other team - occasional events (team or whole org) - very supportive and professional team members - you'll have the chance of working with really great minds - open source products (some of them, while others are closed source) - great environment overall, you don't feel stressed out most of the times

Cons: - Frontend is a bit of a hazard in my opinion, featuring a poor internal library that works kinda meh, is not very customizable, and has some components that lack features or don't work as they should. You're forced to use grafana-ui for pretty much everything except for what they don't support already, which is a downside, and salaries differ based on regions. If you're in Europe you'll get paid less than someone in the US despite doing the same work, and I'm not taking into consideration very expensive US states like California where it's normal to have higher incomes, alongside very high requirements for promoting to a higher position.