Pros
I feel like I am still learning new things and expanding my ability to do this work every day. I also think the work we are doing now is getting increasingly impactful: Building new recycling ecosystems, reimagining end of life healthcare, expanding financial access. It's fun to get to work on hard problems and build solutions that make it so that everyone can win (companies and society). And getting to work on those problems with folks who are deeply passionate, incredibly interesting, and unique (and weird) is really fun. I also feel like I can use all the parts of my background rather than having to fit myself into a box.
Cons
I put as a pro that I feel like I'm learning every day. That sounds nice in a review, but in reality it can also feel very confronting. It means constantly trying things that don't work, and sometimes feeling quite bad about that failure. Regardless of the cultural tools in place, learning sometimes is really challenging and confronting. And this company is definitely focused on learning. There are a lot of reviews here about hours. I think many of those (minus the ones that use crazy superlatives) are fair. It is a lot of work. But for me personally, I don't mind it as much . . .I feel like that comes with the type of problems we get to solve and the level of advisory. When you are grinding at a company for hours it can really suck (and there is a bit of that sometimes) but more often the hours are put toward solving real, important problems that will make an impact on the world.