Pros: Very talented engineers. Great leadership. Positive and productive culture.

Cons: The engineering group isn't very diverse. The main lead engineers were primarily from Ukraine.

Pros: + Useful product with millions of users + Strong user retention + Growing eng team + A lot of technical challenges, interesting tech stack + Great culture

Cons: - Less liquidity as compared to public companies.

Pros: Engineering: - Strong senior engineers to work with and learn from. - Breadth of interesting problems/topics, from distributed systems, NLP, functional programming, machine learning, and deep neural networks. - Culture of proactive action and learning from mistakes, as opposed to the blame-shame-game. - Overall, a solid software engineering house, open to new things but not chasing every "oooh, shiny sparkly." Company: - Emotionally intelligent team that does its best to be open to all types. New types welcome. - Clear goals, balancing long-term and short-term well. - Strong product development environment. - Growth mindset.

Cons: - It's a challenge to grow the engineering team in the ultra-competitive Silicon Valley, hot-potato-engineer-passing environment. - Would like a bit more time off—something that would be even more of an issue for me if I didn't enjoy coming in to work as much. - More diversity on the engineering team—the females, the LGBTQI's, the browns—where ya'll at?! - Beware: not all teammates can tell you the difference between the future perfect and the future perfect continuous tense!