Pros: All the perks of a fast-moving startup with none of the toxic Silicon Valley better-than-thou culture. Hard engineering work, strong team culture, and some real diversity on the team (its nice not being the only woman on my engineering team!) Finally, 2020 has been a really exciting time for the company. The product is seeing surges in demands, new sales, and steps toward profit. The transition to remote work has felt natural and productive.

Cons: You'll feel a need to work a lot more than 40 hours, but the pressure isn't cut-throat.

Pros: The team consists of driven people and highly motivated and creative folks.

Cons: The company was at one point exhilarating, exciting and something you could feel good about. Sadly it has become inundated with a cadre of Harvard grads, and good ol' boys who embody this sort of East Coast elitism, and the absolute worst sort of cutthroat capitalism you'll ever see. They are arrogant, and will wring every last drop out of you. If you work here, you will have to give up your life, and become a salaryman. Don't think your sacrifices will be compensated, or even recognized though—you will find that upper management is never satisfied. Also, I wonder if the CEO actually cares about global health as much as he says, or if he is just trying to fulfill his dream of becoming the next big tech giant. I wonder if his true motivations are the pursuit of power, and a drive to dominate and conquer a new space. This is partly what contributed to me resigning. But the main reason was the ultimate realization that our blue sky is the last relatively unmolested space that we can look up to and not see an absolute flurry of activity or human influence. We can look up at any given moment and see relative calm. It's some of the last vestiges of nature that you can observe in a city, not dominated by man. The idea of dozens of drones zipping around delivering people's lunches, lattes and ganooks became extremely off-putting. (Let's not even bring up the farce of them being green.) It's moving us towards more waste, faster consumption, and further ecocide. Not only that, but the public's acceptance of commercial drones could feasibly lead down a road of their acceptance of police and surveillance drones, and their eventual usage; further eroding our right to privacy. It's a world that I don't want to be a part of, or at the very least to help create.

Pros: - Some teams are full of good and smart people who are doing their best. - Newer employees are well intentioned and hopeful. - The mission and tech used to be very cool.

Cons: - chaos. Absolute and utter chaos. Changes in vision, direction, teams, leadership - everything, leading to a large scale disillusionment with the potential future success of the business (my personal outlook on that is negative)- Every single employee is overworked and stressed, and this frequently makes people unkind to their colleagues, all stemming from unrealistic top-down demands- some of the most nonsensical layoffs I have ever encountered. Entire mission-critical teams gutted for seemingly no reason. Can’t help but feel like the goal is to instill fear- women and minorities are consistently disrespected and pushed out of the company. I imagine that they have more EEOC claims than the legal team can handle at the moment (because all the lawyers left)- all of the good employees are leaving as fast as they can (including senior leadership and people with 5+ years tenure).