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All about culture, youth and fitting in

Engineering
Current Employee
Has worked at SendGrid for 2 years
July 26, 2014
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
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 $$

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.

Advice to Management

You sometimes seem too needy and eager to fit in. You're doing a good job with funding. I appreciate the all-hands and camp SGs.

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