Friendly but Short-Sighted
Friendly but Short-Sighted
It's a neat product that lets non-technical folks take advantage of automation.
My colleagues were friendly, knowledgeable, and supportive. Teams moved fast and were given lots of autonomy. The tech stack was fairly modern, and they're open to suggestions for change.
"Move fast and get results no matter how you do it" inevitably leads to tech debt and support burden, and that applied here.
They were working on some aspects of it, but overall the culture still prioritized immediate feature delivery over future maintainability. This is true both of customer-facing products and internal utilities.
They also seemed to be undergoing substantial management / organization churn.
Don't hire ICs, even senior ICs, and expect them to lead teams.
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