Pros: The pay was good. The perks were good.

Cons: It was a bad engineering culture. It was more so about the process and productivity versus the actual people and personalities. However, there was a definite sense of who they value and who they don't. There was very poor management. My perspective was limited to Senior Managers and Directors. It seems almost as if many never held positions of that level. There was secret room planning and technical strategy that hardly ever made it down to the individual contributors. The IC input was more of a checkbox. They were very narrow focused when implementing new tooling and technologies. Maybe half the use cases were ever even taken into consideration. It was extremely hard to be productive in Upstart Engineering specifically the Platform division. Teams simply could not own end to end and function autonomously due to Silos and nested Silos within the organization structure.

Pros: There are opportunities to work on cutting edge tech. We offer great benefits. You will be solving interesting problems. The culture has vastly improved in the past year.

Cons: Depending on what team you work with, projects may not be so interesting. Only a set of teams work on newer things, while many work on older technology, although there are lots of improvements being made to change that.

Pros: A company that truly doesnt micromanage. Exactly at my 6 month mark my manager asked me what I wanted to do next so they could start preparing me.

Cons: Currently layoffs are happening back to back and there is no rhyme or reason for who is next to go. And when it is time you receive an email at 7:30am that not even your manager is aware of.