Indeed

Honestly, I had the ideal work experience at Indeed for the first year. Benefits were great. The company cares about its employees. My managers and my team were genuine and cared about growing as a team. I was making actual engineering contributions to the product.

After re-prioritisation of initiatives, the direction became unclear due to the nature of our sub-organisation. Eventually, our entire office got laid off due to strategic re-alignment.

Despite that, I harbour no strong negative feelings towards the company. I sincerely believed that leadership tried their best to avoid this outcome (if not for the employees, then for the hit to their brand reputation that they worked so hard to keep).

Honestly, I would still be willing to return to Indeed at a later part of my life if they ever set up another office here.

Don't set up the internationalization of existing products as a separate sub-organization. It hamstrung the impact that we were allowed to have.