Pros: Sigma has a wonderful culture and atmosphere - people are friendly, coworkers enjoy socializing together, and there's excitement around Sigma's continued success. The engineering department has a great VP who has vision and experience scaling small teams. Due to the founders being technical, there's a strong engineering culture within the company, with technical feasibility a first-class citizen among leadership. For example, due to site reliability issues, all of engineering took a month to focus on stability and tech debt instead of feature development, something I've never experienced on another production app. Post-pandemic, the company has moved to a hybrid work culture, with teams in the office 2-3 days / week. The leadership is fantastic. I've seen people be fired, but their last day of "official" employment delayed just so their options vest. Instead of trying to screw people out of every dollar like many places might, Sigma has consistently done right by people. They also do a comp adjustment to ensure existing engineers aren't getting paid less than incoming engineers.

Cons: On the one hand, having two founders who are brilliantly technical means there are tremendous opportunities to learn and grow. Both Rob and Jason actively and regularly push and review code. However, they both much prefer doing to teaching/leading, so less experienced engineers often find themselves floundering. I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention that one of the founders has a rather contentious approach that not everyone enjoys. If you work in a similar part of the codebase as him, you'll have to prove to him you know what you're doing before he trusts you. In the absence of that trust, expect extensive PR reviews. Feedback loop is nonexistent - both IC and managers often have no idea how they're doing until it's too late. Iteration speed is often high, with it occasionally impacting work / life balance. Leadership is a bit of a stickler about coming into the office.

Pros: Core product ideas - spreadsheet interface, integration with existing data in warehouse - are good. Code quality is not bad, good and up to date tech used. People are nice.

Cons: Little scope for innovation. Brutal code review culture driven mostly by CTO. Top down with little autonomy or feedback. Feels stagnant, bureaucratic, unproductive.

Pros: I love my job. There is always so much going on, and every week is fast paced and exciting. Because the company is so young, I am able to interact with all members of the company daily and really feel like my voice is heard. As a group, we have a very strong focus on building a product that we are proud of and that we want to be users of ourselves. This mentality has built a strong foundation for a team with strong work ethics and no room or desire for egos getting in the way. Mentorship has also been awesome here. I started as a fairly junior engineer, and over the course of my time here I have received guidance and support from every member of our engineering team. This includes our two awesome founders, who take the time and care to work with all of their employees towards growing a great team and building a product that we can all be proud of.

Cons: For me, there really haven’t been any cons. If working at a startup is not for you, then right now, Sigma probably is not the right fit. But if you want to work at a young company, then any growing pains are worth the opportunity you will find here.