Great Company with Massive Potential - Anonymous employee Cylinder Employee Review

5.0
Jun 20, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This young startup is small, but full of awesome and clever team members. A very smart group of people, who work together tightly as a team and are really passionate about what they do. This is the CEO/Founder's fourth company and he has been incredibly successful. He doesn't micromanage and everyone works well together.

Cons

It's a young startup, so you have to be willing to wear multiple hats. Also, most people work remotely, so you have to be comfortable working out of an office. Being self-motivated and comfortable with a very unstructured environment is a must. Everyone is running hard and so sometimes communications are not as frequent as they probably need to be.

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Cylinder Response
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Thank you. You are right. We have lots of opportunity and demand and therefore this environment is fast paced and the successful people wear many hats. But in the end it is worth it to have folks like you on board.

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