Toast

I'm thrilled to be a part of the Toast family. Since starting here, I've seen the company evolve from bands of engineers to highly disciplined, cross-functional teams. The opportunity that we have to become the leader in the restaurant POS industry is the kind that you're lucky to see even once in your career. It remains a privilege to work alongside the incredibly talented team here.

Things haven't always been perfect. The last time I reviewed Toast, I had to include a few cons:

• Work/life balance could sometimes be stretched.
• There was no 401k matching.
• Compensation relative to the industry was a little on the low side.

Management here listens, and the proof of that is that a little over a year later, all of those concerns have been addressed. Compensation, including equity, feels right for Boston. The 401K match was overdue, but is finally here. The hiring of additional engineering leadership has helped make individual teams function more efficiently and plan their workloads better. We do stupid things a lot less often. For those of us who have been around longer, we are even now also offered a "Toast sabbatical", a one-month long paid vacation provided in addition to your normal annual PTO.

This is not the kind of workplace you can expect to perform the bare minimum in. Is that even a con?

Keep up the great work! The time spent addressing employee concerns has not gone unnoticed.