Amazing people, advanced products, high growth, and help save lives.
Amazing people, advanced products, high growth, and help save lives.
- Fantastic product with tons of interesting problems to solve that will have a huge impact on saving people's lives. - Team is dedicated and intelligent. Some of the smartest and hardest working people I've ever interacted with. - Constant success and growth. The vision is incredibly ambitious and yet every month it seems a huge milestone is hit that tops the last. This is both a combination of the leadership and product development being excellent. - The leadership is comprised of former researchers and professors at Draper Labs and CMU, Navy Seals, an Admiral, and a founding CEO with an engineering background and previous successful exits. - Engineering culture values thinking long term. People care about both internal and external quality. - Friendly open culture that encourages personal growth and helping those around you. - Constant focus on doing things that truly matter, having impact, and 'always be cool'. - Main office is located in Downtown, San Diego. Beautiful weather year round, great Mexican food, and lots of craft beer. - Lunch and Dinner is provided (Did I mention the food is great?) - One of the best gyms in San Diego is located in the same building and is 50% off for employees.
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Work life balance can be challenging because the company is growing at a very rapid pace. Always more things to do than there are people.
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Environment is geared towards self-motivated people. You will thrive here if you can take ownership of things without being told. There are always people willing to help you with your task though.
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Open floor plan, despite its benefits, can be distracting at times.
- Continue hiring more excellent people.
- Optional quiet and distrction-free work spaces would probably help productivity.
- Encourage short breaks so people can disconnect to solve a problem and also interact with people in very different roles. (Ping Pong table, gym groups?)
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Software Development Engineer
San Diego, California, United StatesFebruary 14, 2018I applied through an employee referral. The process took two weeks. I spoke with two people, the CTO and the CEO. It started with a phone interview with the CEO and then in-person interviews with both. I was asked questions about my background and e
Mechanical Design Engineer
San Diego, California, United StatesJuly 30, 2025It was a pretty intensive process. There was one technical recruiter call and one call with one of the lead engineers. Then there was a full morning or afternoon on-site with several interviews with different team members and a full presentation. I e
Mechanical Engineer
San Diego, California, United StatesOctober 3, 2018I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. The interview spanned most of the day. The majority of the time was spent with various hardware team members. I gave a presentation, took a 60-minute test, and discussed my results wi
