Pros: Working on a product with potential.

Cons: - Very bad onboarding and off-boarding. Onboarding to the code base was around 10 minutes. - Most of the things related to the codebase are not documented anywhere, and there are no team-wide engineering or communication practices. - Huge gap between Android and iOS teams; - Bad communication skills from managers. Goals, tasks, and deadlines are not explained clearly. - Feedbacks are ignored. - Blame culture. - Lot of evening meetings and no respect for work-life balance. - Overseas communication. - Awful health insurance that does not cover many important things. - Lot of egos and unwillingness to solve the problems.

Pros: - ŌURA is a remote-first company with no plans to require a return to office, at least for software engineering roles. - The company holds a leading position in the smart ring market and continues to show strong growth, making equity a valuable part of your compensation over time. - Generous benefits go beyond the norm, including a $300/month wellness stipend, $70/month internet/phone stipend, $750 annual professional development budget, and a one-time $500 work-from-home setup allowance. The flexibility in how these can be used is a big plus. - PTO is well above average: 4 weeks of vacation, 8 Wellness Days, and 13 paid holidays annually. This aligns more with the amount of PTO that European companies get, and you don't have the BS that comes with "unlimited" PTO. - Despite operating at startup speed, management takes work-life balance seriously and makes real efforts to adjust workloads based on employee well-being. - You'll work with modern, cutting-edge technologies, rarely, if ever, dealing with outdated stacks. - Management is outcome-focused and gives teams autonomy to determine how best to achieve their goals, providing a high level of trust and independence.

Cons: - The pace of progress can occasionally be too fast, leaving limited time to address naturally accumulated technical debt. Periodic cool-down sprints would help the team recalibrate and maintain long-term code quality.

Pros: Company has good values. CEO has great vision, communicates, and motivates. Hybrid work. Good product that helps people.

Cons: Bad middle management. Authoritarian and micro-managing. Engineering by committee. No autonomy given to individuals. No freedom to be creative and come up with new ways of doing things better and more efficiently. Bad work-life balance. Eroding culture and morale as a result of bringing in new management that is authoritarian, narcissistic, and micro-managing.