Toast

• Remote
• Generally nice and collaborative coworkers
• Benefits and compensation if you joined at a low stock price.

Crazy amount of meetings (20+ hours/week) resulting in no decisions or progress. More often than not, there are times when you have 3-4 hours of back-to-back meetings and no time to take a dump or do actual work. Then, if you are in an org that needs to interface with overseas teams, expect meetings at night from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. This means no downtime to watch TV, go out for date nights, or put your kids to sleep. I would not recommend joining such a team unless you are single or really don’t like your family.

General disorganization where you need to monitor random channels with hundreds of people who shoot out random questions into the void. Requirements and design decisions change on a whim.

Decisions by committee where everyone can provide different opinions, and no one is there to make a final consensus.

This is not a startup anymore. Please learn to scale and be more efficient in processes and decision-making.