SendGrid

• Great offices
• Great culture & values
• Awesome perks
• Stock performance that is outstanding
• Rewarded for good performance
• I love my teammates
• Lots of opportunities to learn, challenge, and grow
• Interesting work
• Processes that are good
• Sameer & Craig who are great

It might be the best decision of my career so far, but for all the good being said, some issues have come up.

Politics and disingenuity are on the rise. It's often said that the cultural value we're the worst at is the Honest H. Time and time again leadership says to be more honest. But when we give fair, direct feedback to leadership, people get political, and then we're commended to our faces and called bellyachers behind our backs. It's incredibly disingenuous and feels like we're only going downhill from here.

There was a war story of leadership not wanting to dismiss an engineering manager even when engineers were escalating the issue. Leadership said they made a mistake of not letting him go before all the engineers decided to leave the company. Please do not make that mistake again.

I didn't leave one political company to join another and I'm really disappointed we're going in that direction. The more political it becomes, the less we're going to be engaged.

Please be honest/genuine, practice what you preach, and also only hire honest/genuine leaders.