OpenSea

I've been working at OpenSea for over six months now and it's been a dream come true. As someone who's been involved in the NFT space for nearly two years, I was already bullish on the technology and the potential it holds.

What really stood out to me during the interview process was the people. I had the opportunity to chat with several team members, even outside of my interview panel, and they were all incredibly helpful and honest about the company. They went out of their way to provide me with all the information I needed to make an informed decision. Now that I've been at the company for half a year, I've made many frens and am having a blast both on and off work hours.

The second aspect that I fell in love with is the culture of "high velocity, high quality". You might be thinking "that's an oxymoron", but no, people care deeply about creating a stellar product using best technical practices, while also shipping new features constantly. I feel like I'm leveling up my technical skills by learning from those more experienced than me, while also delivering a ton of product and value to the company, and the wider Web3 NFT space.

Finally, I love the degen work culture. This may be more team-specific, but my team is very degen heavy and it's a ton of fun. I used to work in finance, and felt like I had to put a mask on every day at work, but at OpenSea I can 100% be myself. Teammates will share crypto news, Twitter posts (yes we can use Twitter at work ), and cool blockchain use cases, and there are plenty of memes :).

I applied to hundreds of companies, and picked OpenSea out of my 10+ offers, so either I'm crazy, or there's something magical happening here (or both :)).

Like every other startup, OpenSea has its fair share of growing pains. Some teams have good processes in place, while others are still building them out. Also there is a good amount of tribal knowledge, but folks are very helpful. The codebase could also use some hardening and tech debt has definitely been accruing. But nothing new if you've worked at almost any other company before .