Lambda

• Good pay
• Decent benefits (for a small company)
• Unique learning opportunities
• Work from home
• Hardware side of the business seems to be legit

• Janky tech stack, which is all Django, even the backend
• All execution, and no planning, making tech debt impossible to avoid
• Questionable business decisions, such as offloading customer workloads to other clouds
• Low transparency, low communication, and low empathy, where both business and technical decisions happen out of sight with minimal input, and you either get on board fast or face the wrath of the C-suite
• Good ideas are those that fit within the comfort zone of the CTO, while bad ideas are everything else
• Fairly political for such a small company, where brown-nosers have undue influence
• As other reviews have noted, this is the brothers' first company, and the success so far is admirable, but their lack of humility and inability to communicate and plan effectively is a huge liability
• Was a fairly chill place when I joined, but over time the good people left and the vibes changed, so now there is an undercurrent of tension, unending urgency, and suspicion

Listen to your people (especially your ICs) - you hired them to help you, so let them help you. Trust goes both ways.

And please, please put a leash on MB. His my-way-or-the-highway BS is creating a genuinely inferior piece of technology.