Redwood Materials

• Very talented software team. Some of the brightest folks I've ever worked with and yet people are humble, collaborative, and happy to be here.
• Solid work/life balance for a startup (not a cushy job by any means, but also not a lot of overtime)
• Great mission (battery recycling, reducing carbon footprint and pollution of lithium batteries in electric cars and other devices)
• Competitive pay and healthcare
• Lots of greenfield projects

• A bit chaotic as it's a startup--to be productive you really need to be able to reach out to people and help define your own requirements and be able to tell people "no" or "later". The silver lining is there's minimal bureaucracy / micro-management.

• Some other teams at Redwood are much less happy places to work--there can be a lot of pressure put on manufacturing-adjacent teams to hit deadlines.

Having a generous, unambiguous parental leave policy would be nice.