Pros
Parabol believes people are able to do their best work when the work feels meaningful to every teammate. The product Parabol makes aspires to help people feel connected to each other and help teams do their best work. Because everybody at Parabol uses Parabol to do their job, it is easy to feel connected to why Parabol exists as a company.
Parabol is a values-driven company: Parabol's hiring process is designed to find folks with similar values, even if folks have differing backgrounds or identities. Hiring colleagues who value empathy, experimentation, and transparency helps Parabol's employees build trust and communicate with one another.
Parabol is an inclusive, remote-first company. There is no central office. People who work at Parabol include busy parents, folks with eldercare responsibilities, or value personal flexibility, time freedom, and deep work.
Parabol tries to minimize mandatory meetings. Parabol defaults to doing work asynchronously, but we're not shy to "upgrade the bandwidth" and collaborate with one another realtime.
People work with a high degree of autonomy, and a process exists on every team for suggesting and implementing changes to the way anything on the team or more broadly within the company.
Cons
Parabol is a young, growing company. As of this writing (2021), Parabol is fewer than 6 years old. It's dynamic and evolving and each person who Parabol hires has an impact on its culture.
As the rate of evolution at Parabol is high, sometimes there isn't "a way" to do something yet. Successful employees must be comfortable with some ambiguity—or better—helping to experiment, find, and write down how things get done.