SendGrid

Good benefits, and management seems to care about making it a good place to work. Coworkers are mostly people who are smart and fun to work with.

Goal setting exercises feel pointless. Goals often just map to the product road map, and achieving them depends on whether or not the work is prioritized by product management. Any conversation around these goals is rarely stimulating or useful from a career development perspective.

I haven't found the HR processes useful at all when it comes to having performance conversations or understanding my performance reviews. Performance assessment seems mostly subjective. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but if it's all subjective in the end anyway, we shouldn't have to spend so much time and effort on pointless reviews and goals.

The company has had high attrition rates in the past, so many people have only been with the company a short time.

1 On 1 meetings would be better if they were more conversational, often I feel like it is just 30 minutes of getting talked at.