Pros: Work at Zipline really has meaning and you feel it when you go home at night. You don't want to stop working or stop making progress forward. The impact we're having is felt everyday and that fuels me. There's not real pressure from anyone to work long hours and I certainly take most weekends off, but at the same time, I do find myself wanting to pour more of my life into this work. Zipline's got plenty of other benefits: plain awesome people, no walls between anyone, and they really do trust you from your first day. It took some getting used to (there are no safety nets, if you will).

Cons: I don't have much to complain about.

Pros: The engineers are humble and brilliant. Everyone is scrappy. The ego-to-skill ratio is <1 across the board. Teams are extremely fast moving. The company is extremely good at shipping V1 products and spiral designing the best solutions to actual customer needs with real world learnings. It's a rocket ship. Zipline is a place where you will viscerally feel the impact of your work. You can't help it. There are very few places where "impact" is measured in terms of direct quality of life improvement of your customers. Health outcomes literally equating to the number of children vaccinated, number of mothers saved from postpartum hemorrhaging, elimination of waste in medical systems, number of COVID-19 tests processed... It feels cliche this but it's true, the work Zipline does every day saves lives. Zipline is definitely not perfect - and going through many growing pains. But leadership has been reacting quickly, and is continuously course correcting while listening to employees.

Cons: The work Zipline has cut out for it is only getting harder. This is the kind of problem that excellent engineers salivate over. Hard, fun problems that have very real world consequences (both positive and negative). But this comes with large amounts of pressure to make this happen. Scaling technologies that have a hardware component in the field like this is extremely difficult. Zipline is not in the SaaS business - which comes with a large number of very real challenges, but also has powerful ramifications for operating at multi-national scale. Zipline is also in direct competition with some of the best funded companies in the world in the race to perfect instantaneous logistics.

Pros: Every day, the milestones that the company achieves blow my own mind. I find myself shocked at the company's progress every day.

Cons: There is minimal room for personal growth.