Pros
- Remote working was possible when i was there - Salaries are marginally above market if you are a beginner - Relative technological freedom
Cons
- Insane working hours. Expect to work most evenings and most weekends without pay. Having a family life is openly frowned upon by management and at least one person was fired for this reason during my stay. - Unrealistic deadlines, with absolutely no managerial support. Combined with under-sized teams and high-octane turnover, this obviously leads to a very mediocre code base. - As a result, the atmosphere is extremely sinister. Most developers are young and with no experience, and operate permanently at high levels of psychological distress. - Mediocre management with no real experience of startups and how they operate. VERBAL ABUSE IN ALL CAPS seems to be the most prominent communication mode, especially during the overly long and intense "sprints". - Complete misalignment of ambition and means : for example a team can be cut by half and still expected to deliver the same quantity of tech in the same time frame. - Absolutely no coding or even project management methodology. - Company lives on investor money and has barely closed any sale during my stay. This is extremely demoralizing for the team and leads to the impression that the company is fictitious.