4.0
Aug 24, 2014
Anonymous employee
Former employee, more than 3 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Truly superior technology. Made competitors look laughably incompetent. Management said they valued out-of-the-box thinking and actually meant it.
Cons
Growth brought talent dilution and complex politics. Kissinger's law ("Academic politics is so vicious because there is so little at stake.") kicked in. CEO couldn't hire a sales VP to save his life. Company bought by IBM mostly to kill it. Emeryville has its charms, but logistical accessibility (i.e. decent BART connection) isn't one of them.