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• Small teams, so lots of responsibility.
• Lots of smart and kind people.
• Competitive compensation (though stock vesting is backloaded to encourage 4 years).

• Culture is toxic and stressful. Think more Amazon than Facebook.
• Employees are encouraged to work long hours to make up for lackluster code design, rather than improving the code.
• More focused on ops and maintenance than long-term improvements to the product.
• Very top-down management, with most priorities coming from higher-up management than those closer to the product.

Focus on enabling engineers to be more productive, rather than trying to meet specific goals through long hours.

Be willing to take a temporary hit in order to save time in the long run.