SendGrid

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.

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.

Keep the culture, it sets us apart from other companies.

As much as being public requires you to focus on the numbers, don’t forget that focusing only on the numbers will fail you. Ensure that your employees are happy and that you’re meeting/exceeding the needs and expectations of your customers — the numbers will follow. It’s how SendGrid got where it is today — don’t let Wall Street force us to change what isn’t broken.