Pros: - CEO seems very intelligent. - Interesting product/space. - A lot of good, smart people on the ground.

Cons: Predatory culture encouraging new grads to work 24/7 with no work/life balance. Terrible, immature, unprofessional middle and lower management.

Pros: Fully remote work, some very smart senior and staff developers, and good internal dev tooling. Local development and debugging are pretty smooth along with CI/CD. The culture was good until 2023.

Cons: Management and execs have become incredibly demanding since 2023. They push hard for new features without giving teams the time to scope them. Employees then take the blame and get let go immediately. I had a director literally tell me he "prioritizes work over family" in a one-on-one. Remote work here is deceptive because Samsara uses that to overwork employees. It is common now to be working from home during weekends or outside business hours. Oncall is the absolute worst. Depending on the team, expect about one week a month of never leaving your phone or computer. You can get paged at 3 AM, and you are expected to wake up and look at it. Your work metrics are also recorded to compare you to coworkers and serve as evidence to "up-and-out" you (fire you if not promoted).

Pros: - Super interesting and challenging product - Smart engineers around

Cons: The middle management I worked with reacts to feedback in a highly unprofessional manner. Instead of working to improve, they blame you for not being a good fit for the environment (their exact words). The hypocrisy of middle management is striking. They may give you positive feedback in person, but provide a completely different assessment to your direct manager or other internal stakeholders. Moreover, you have no visibility into this hidden feedback. The incompetence of middle management (the so-called “roadmap keepers”) is evident. The long-term roadmap changes constantly, often without any clear reason. You might plan a major strategic piece of work and start executing it, only for it to be suddenly deprioritized. Then, after switching to something else, that same deprioritized initiative might reappear as the top priority. This is not the expected agility of working with a backlog in response to new requirements or customer feedback. I’m talking about large strategic initiatives planned on a quarterly basis that keep shifting without justification. The salary is fairly average. They expect you to work as if you were in a FAANG company, yet they are unwilling to compensate you accordingly.