Rokt

• Get to work with smart, driven people.
• Can pick up many new skills working here.
• Free catered lunch every day, snacks, drinks, etc.

• Top-down culture of fear at the company. There are no 360 reviews here, so performance is only evaluated by your direct manager, with no real input from anyone else. As a result, people are afraid to speak up to the CEO and CCO, who are a husband/wife duo. This fear trickles down to the rest of the organization.

• Hire-to-fire culture, borrowed straight from the Amazon playbook. The expectation is that each performance cycle, 20% of all employees will be "below the bar" and will eventually get pushed out. Employee churn is constant.

• Work-life balance does not exist here. Be prepared to work nights and weekends.

• There are several people in exco and lower management that are straight-up incompetent. More than a few managers here have no idea how to build/grow a team, motivate people, or give actionable feedback.

• Favoritism and office politics are a mainstay here.

• Promotions are infrequent and often denied for dubious reasons, as the company tends to hire externally rather than grow existing employees.

• Despite there being many interesting technical problems to solve, engineering teams are frequently not given enough scope to achieve the business impact needed for promotion.

• Compensation is not competitive with market rates, despite a high hiring bar.

• Tech stack has a surprising amount of legacy code and poor architectural decisions that don't scale well.

Embody the company values. Implement a 360 performance review process.