Pros: Starburst is a quite unique place where one can work on a popular open source project and create business value for customers. This is great that the company is developing so nicely and without venture money. This validates the product offering from the start.

Cons: Still too few people to do everything there is to be done (maybe that's always so though).

Pros: Good engineers, decent comp, decent work life balance

Cons: Lots of strategic direction changes, can be chaotic

Pros: * Extremely smart and talented coworkers * Fully remote if you'd like

Cons: * Engineering management is borderline incompetent and ruining this company. We change direction completely every two seconds. Every product is half-baked and done in a rush. It's like taking cocaine. A short term high predates the crash. * Everyone rows their own boat. No one is rowing in the same direction. It's the wild west out here. If you like total chaos with no coherent strategy and everyone working against each other, Starburst R&D is the place for you. * AI gets shoved down your throat here in the worst way. Each team is criminally understaffed, and AI is the excuse for that understaffing. The rising incidents and worse code quality is an *entirely predictable outcome* that everyone who paid attention saw coming. * No 401k, or any other good benefit for that matter