Pros: * Quality of Founding Team - Very experienced, not making silly mistakes, have set up a good culture. * Engineering talent - Founders and founding engineers are all great, experienced, and very good engineers. There's no shortage of people to get advice from and learn from. A lot of the rest of the engineering team is quite young, but super smart, hardworking, and humble. * Real - Clearly hit product-market fit and at a scaling stage. Risks are obviously still there, but risks are more around execution and the size the company will be, not a risk of it not being a company in 12 months. * Growing - Lots of opportunity for personal growth: leadership, different roles, lots of learning, new technology, etc. * Supportive Environment - The leadership is very explicit (and takes action on this) about supporting everyone in their career goals. Want to sit on a sales call? Want to try out product management? If you put your hand up and ask for an opportunity, you'll get it.

Cons: Product Leadership - I think the product management and leadership is still being worked out. However, the company is aware of this and explicitly hiring to fill key positions. Office - Space is cramped right now, but we are moving, so it should be resolved.

Pros: Good pay, location, and meals. They are competing and want people from Google and Facebook so their company can run, so they pay higher than what you make at Google/Facebook. This is a way to attract workers so their company can grow, and that is why they pay more.

Cons: Leetchers code so copy and paste it. They are only nice to employees who come from Google and Facebook, and those who graduate from Stanford University. They aren't nice to others who come from a different background than what they asked for. It is kind of like a storage start-up company, but it seems like there are so many others to compete with. It appears to me that they are copying from other companies, or else why would someone come to the storage distribution company rather than going to their direct source, such as AWS (Amazon), Azure (Microsoft), VMware, or GCP (Google)? Think about it! There is a super high workload.

Pros: Good pay and solid benefits. Hopes of an IPO in the near future? Decent office perks (before COVID struck, at least). Potentially interesting and challenging engineering work.

Cons: Technical debt issues galore. Management isn't receptive to concerns of ICs, especially more junior ICs. Overall direction can be extremely inconsistent and unclear.