Pros
- Promising vision of democratizing data. - Reputable investors. - Comfortable benefits. - Lots of swag. - Some really cool, and talented, people on the team. - Competitive compensation (although without sales or product market fit, OTE is hardly hit by employees). - Secured funding prior to the economic downturn, and with layoffs, there's a good amount of runway. - As with all start-ups, a major learning experience.
Cons
- Weak product market fit, selling a fake promise to potential and current employees. - Customers can not understand the product and competitors communicate and address value drivers in a more effective manner. - Late to pivot, continues to struggle at identifying root cause leading to impulsive decision-making (with major impacts across employee experience including lack of communication of roadmap). - Top-down approach that does not bring employee voices to the table. - No transparency on company performance, major distrust between leadership and individual contributors. - Information spread through the grapevine (contributing to a larger theme of favoritism and bias within the company). - Toxic culture that's not a priority to fix, many leaders believe that complete self-interest (rather than team interest) and lack of work-life balance make the best employee. - Layoffs handled poorly creating a feeling among remaining employees of a lack of job security. - Lack of diversity impacts business (compounded with no DEI training, escalations being handled poorly, and a glass ceiling). - Treats entry-level employees as replaceable and the root of all issues despite being the only team that consistently hit quota. - Mass exodus of top talent across sales teams only led leadership to make reactionary decisions instead of taking a step back and re-thinking culture. - Despite being an early-stage start-up, employees making necessary efforts to deliver value outside of their job function is not encouraged.
