Pros: Everyone here truly cares about each other, the customers, the business and the culture. Working environment is flexible, creating the ability to have a great work-life balance. Benefits are amazing: * Excellent health care plans * Personalized (“Unlimited”) time off * Free lunch every day * Plenty of snacks (both healthy and unhealthy) in the kitchen * 5 weeks of parental leave * Stock/equity grants. And let’s not forget about the company-wide annual kick-off retreat. Who doesn’t like a few days at an all-inclusive resort? Challenging projects — you won’t get bored.

Cons: SendGrid went public about 5 months ago. This has introduced some interesting changes that have been necessary. SendGrid’s “Honest H” even extended to the nitty gritty details of how the company was doing financially — at least while we were private. Now it’s a different story, out of legal necessity — which you can tell is difficult for the leadership. They don’t like to keep people in the dark. It’s not so much a “con” as it is a “growing pain”. Like all companies, there are struggles — be it too much to do in too little time, or with too few people — or turnover due to major changes (going public) — or just not having all the necessary skills on the team. But again, you see this everywhere. SendGrid is no different in this regard.

Pros: Great benefits: free lunches everyday, beer fridges and kegerators at each office, ping-pong!, gr8 travel (free trips between CO and CA, plus yearly party in Mexico), crossfit and health stipend, ski passes and moar. We get a chance to try cutting edge tech (evaluated NoSQL, was using Node and Ruby, now onto Golang). Like the kanban way of working (scrum was good too). Up & coming company, dominating our space. Great QA dept. Office locations (Boulder & Denver) are amazing and Orange looks improved too. Had our first full-company, internal hackathon which was tons of fun. SG Labs is doing good stuff. Stock options $$ :D

Cons: Engineering and DevOps has poor leadership, and the roadmap is still unpredictable. Co-founders are disengaged, but they are kind and honest. Pay is only meh. There is a palpable bias against the Orange office. Youth and partying personality types fit fine, but if you're old or quiet, you get forced out, and those of us left behind aren't given any reason why we lose the diversity. It is dangerously cliquey; some people are so fake and two-faced, but if you complain, somebody high-up cries.

Pros: Hiring people with the 4H mentality makes it much easier to ensure we're all mature enough to get along even when things go badly. There are lots and lots of perks at the company.

Cons: Management layers weren't really in place very strongly when I worked there, though it was much better by the time I left. This caused a ton of changes (mostly process) while management figured out what to do, but it showed they cared about the employees to do so. But it was pretty jarring for engineers for a while. Much better now, I think.