Pros: I have been at Life360 for over five years. Here are some thoughts. - The work is incredibly impactful. Hearing stories from our users about how we helped them with crash detection is very rewarding, and you can't get that at very many other places. On a given day, Life360 detects and responds to over 100 real customer auto crashes every day. I feel very proud about that when I talk to friends and family. Can you say that about your current role? - Strong strategy and vision. With excellent Engineering leadership and the recent acquisition of Tile and Jiobit, Life360 is poised to be a major player in the family safety space. We're sailing on a rising tide that seems to get bigger each year. - Massive scale and interesting tech. Our servers handle something like 10 billion API requests every day, and we have best-in-class location and driving technology on iOS and Android platforms. It's hard. But this is why we look for the best engineers to join our team and take us to the next level of scale.

Cons: - As others have mentioned, the dynamism and changes that the company has gone through this year are real. The vision is strong (Facebook for Families), and the strategy is sound, but there have been a lot of direction shifts. This can wear on the team. That said, we are moving in the right direction, and things are starting to feel more stable and are poised for some substantial growth opportunities in the coming year.

Pros: Company with a good mission and one of those rare companies that still retained the original cofounders. Solid user and revenue growth since 2016, and the COO (who was CPI back then) has done a very good job to refocus on product areas that mattered most. Recent IPO in ASX raised a solid round to invest in future growth. CEO, CTO and biz dev team have done an excellent job prepping the company for an international IPO in < 1 year. Life360 always managed to hire excellent product managers, and I hope they can keep doing it. I have had the pleasure to work with at least 4 excellent PMs. Android team consistently hired great talent and generally had a history of good team chemistry. Remote hire is now an option, which means talent from around the globe can work in Life360. WFH Fridays can be beneficial to most people living around the Bay Area. Very competitive cash compensation in general. Though total comp is far below market when equity is considered (ISOs are no longer inexpensive). Have been hiring a good number of people on H1B visa, which is great to see. Despite his limitations, the CEO has matured significantly and led the company to reach some ambitious goals over the last several years.

Cons: Since fall 2018 the team structure and operations have been a big mess, and I really hope they have figured out a good solution by summer. 'Agree and Commit' culture, where if you disagree too often with management's practices you will be fired. Manager driven teams, where they own both the team's goals and team members. Feedback only goes downwards from Managers to their 'reports', with no way to review up your management chain. You are 'up or out' for all levels. Performance reviews: There was a great and effective process for several years until for 2019 they introduced a legacy review process that was really badly constructed. iOS team had been volatile with a lot of turnover and have made several bad hires over the years, but they had their fair share of solid talent. Design talent have been very inconsistent with a few exceptions. Infrastructure team have failed to retain the best hires or having to fire the others on a regular basis. As the user base grows, Life360 needs to scale this team and retain their best people. Not an ideal environment for parents. Yes I know they are a company for 'Families', but recent policies have made it difficult for parents. One of them was to maintain a certain number of work hours (8+) in the office from the Engineering leaders. Have poor arrangements for new mothers in the office. Most of the parents that had children within the last few years have left, or got fired. 'Unlimited vacation' policy is regularly touted as a "benefit", but it is not. Managers had a history of communicating passive aggressive threats of the consequences of taking vacations longer than 2 weeks.

Pros: Good people who try hard for the most part

Cons: Bad management in places that come off as flip and not genuine.