Wonderful people and work environment - Anonymous employee Sage AI Labs Employee Review

Incredible culture of ownership where engineers take problems end to end from ideation to production, leading to fast learning and meaningful impact. The team is sharp, thoughtful, and genuinely passionate, with strong collaboration across engineering, product, and growth team members from places like Google, Microsoft, Reddit, and BeReal. Working with Sebastian, a founder with a clear and ambitious vision, created a fast moving, high execution environment where great ideas quickly turned into reality.

Typical early-stage startup tradeoffs. Priorities can shift quickly and there’s some ambiguity, which is great for learning and ownership but may not be for folks who prefer more structure.

The team is high-energy, motivated, and full of ideas. People genuinely care about the work and are excited to experiment. The in-person environment adds to that energy, making it easy to bounce ideas off each other and build momentum quickly. The culture is fast-paced, with a strong emphasis on trying lots of ideas and using data to see what sticks. There’s very little process overhead, which makes it easy to move quickly. Someone can come up with an idea, start building it, and launch within a week or two. There aren’t heavy specs or long review cycles, and there’s a real willingness to ship quickly while ideas are rough and iterate from there. Leadership sets a clear philosophy: move fast, don’t over-deliberate, and let data guide decisions rather than opinions. There’s a strong emphasis on running many small experiments and learning quickly, which feels appropriate for an early-stage company. There’s also a lot of ownership, where people are trusted to execute without being micromanaged.

Because so many experiments are happening at once, communication can sometimes get fragmented across side conversations. The team is moving in the right direction by encouraging more public communication, but it would help to continue reinforcing that shift so everyone can stay aligned.