Pros: Lots of interesting projects to be done, and plenty of opportunity to have ownership of entire components. Emphasis on mentorship and growth. Many people (including the founders) started out inexperienced and grew into their current role. Adding to the above, everyone across engineering, pm, marketing, and etcetera is incredibly capable and reliable (but also busy). Company is growing rapidly and likely to be successful in the future. The product is interesting and fun, and you are able to borrow a drone to fly on weekends. Despite being a startup, leadership has a mature and nuanced attitude. Teams can put in bursts of effort when necessary, but the focus is on sustainability and work/life balance.

Cons: Deadlines can appear and move around quickly, making it difficult to plan work. It could be more diverse, but it is actively improving as well. It lacks the perks of a unicorn or FAANG company.

Pros: The pay is not bad, and the stock options are promising. There is no 401k.

Cons: Rushed technology, and a code base that is made to be unnecessarily complicated. Uptight, non-communicative management with their favorite people around.

Pros: Defense sales mean that stock is valuable. Work-life balance is good.

Cons: Company is a national embarrassment; Ukraine chose to buy DJI instead of using Skydios that they got for free. Management doesn’t prioritize making core autonomy work reliably, and is only interested in new features. Infrastructure and tooling are extremely poor, making an extremely frustrating working environment. It is a very old and slow moving company that is resistant to change.