Pros: Been at Zipline to see all of the chaos of P2 not working to it working well in real life. Honestly there’s nothing more rewarding than watching a borderline piece of junk prototype turn into the efficient machine it is today! Also flexible wfh no questions asked and unlimited PTO is hard to beat.

Cons: Honestly just changing priorities as we figure it out. It’s hard and expectations of others around you make you always always need to be on your A+ game.

Pros: I joined during the pandemic but on boarding has been great because everyone was so friendly and made sure I felt included. Very quickly I was given a lot of responsibility and had to learn a lot about how things work to get my job done, but just months in, I already see the impact I can have. Zipline emphasizes its values *a lot* during interviewing and on boarding, and at least compared to my last employer, the values seem to be lived.

Cons: Many people on my team are also new and it seems like everything is changing at once. That makes getting stuff done a bit harder.

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.