Smartsheet

• Good work life balance.

• Open tech stack & Great hardware provided to engineers

• Interesting problems especially in the Grid team. Scaling, building on the cloud, distributed computing. Working on formula, and links is interesting comp science stuff

• Health insurance is provided for free

• 401k match

• RSU and competitive vesting

• Stocked kitchens and impressive conference rooms

I have one con. Product drives everything.

The core Smartsheet architecture i.e sheet load and saves etc are really hard areas to work on. The code itself is 15 years old and trying to change it is going to be a slow and painstaking process. Every company has a code base like this.

It appears product doesn't seem to acknowledge it. The product is making promises to customers without consulting the team. Why? Trying to expedite change is going to make things worse. Listen to the principal and & distinguished engineers. They have those titles for a reason.

An engage deadline is no reason to burn the team out.

Engineering org is trying to do too many things at once. Move to AWS, Continuous deployments, Dev Ops, moving from manual to automated testing, Re-write areas of the code, Getting rid of QA/SRE roles. Slow down, you can't do everything at once, focus on 1 or 2 things and execute