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: Good benefits, remote working, on paper tc

Cons: It’s really a chaotic place for engineers, product managers run the show by providing little to no product knowledge and whole company is dependent on quid pro quo technique. No one knows how they will fight the high interest period, too risky to join. Overall tech stack is poor, and barely you can put anything suitable on your resume, I am still trying to find anything good which I can state on my resume. Tc on paper might be good but with stock slump I lost 90% of my equity, bonus is also uncertain in current market.

Pros: Smart engineers, interesting technical problems, and good compensation and benefits make up the experience.

Cons: There were frequent organizational changes, shifting priorities, and inconsistent management experience.