Pros
Stated mission, PTO policy, pay depending on the role, mostly nice people who mean well and are trying to do the right thing, parental leave and misc. benefits
Cons
Ability to execute on mission. Growing a few light green lettuces is not solving climate change. If climate change and population growth accelerate food crisis it won’t be lettuce that people need. The water crisis in the West is caused by cattle feed, corn, wheat, et cetera not salad lettuces. This is not a serious proposition until it can actually produce more substantial crops. Despite the $$$ spent on marketing there is no established brand. Bowery doesn’t know what it is and consumers certainly don’t. Also bureaucracy, strategy, C-suite, asinine compensation philosophy. The day to day interactions can be maddening. Everything at Bowery is performative, it feels like a caricature of an early 2000s wannabe Silicon Valley startup, complete with cheesy motivational lines the C-suite uses with straight faces (e.g. “if Ford asked people what they wanted they would have said faster horses”). Ask pointed questions in your interviews. In mine they led me to believe the business was much healthier than it was and a lot closer to a few “breakthroughs.”