Pros: - Talented and genuine coworkers -- my direct teammates and manager were all helpful and smart. - The mission is easy to get behind, although it's harder to justify a "second renaissance" in this day and age where many other platforms with bigger moats are providing good-enough alternatives. - Top compensation with a high cash component, competitive with other tech unicorns that pay top of band -- although the equity component is pretty overvalued.

Cons: - Lacking medium- and long-term focus. Projects and overarching objectives change very often (sometimes multiple times in the span of a couple of months) without much transparency from leadership. This is expected at a growing company, but the whiplash at Patreon was significantly worse than other (smaller) startups I've worked at. - Has most of the growing pains of a startup without many of the positives. Significant effort is required to get projects started, and developer velocity is slow due to lack of tooling and observability. It's difficult to build confidence for any reasonably sized change. - Lots of areas are lacking an owner, and tech debt isn't prioritized, which dampens velocity. - Ever-looming risk of layoffs (since they've already happened a few times in the company's history).

Pros: Kind and hardworking teammates. Great mission.

Cons: Lots of changes happening in the company. Growing pains.

Pros: Patreon has a commendable mission: funding the creative class. Being a part of that mission feels rewarding and empowering.

Cons: Leadership feels inauthentic. There is an integrity gap between what leadership preaches publicly and their actions. This was particularly evident in a number of circumstances (e.g., the multiple layoffs). CPO has failed to walk the talk, so far. A lot of empty promises and "grandiose" strategies but no real changes in the product since he joined. Turnover is very high at all levels, including key leadership positions.