talented team but heavy uncertainty - Software Engineer SingleStore Employee Review

This is really great feedback. I'd like to address some of your concerns: - Folks hired and let go quickly. At a startup, when you hire people in leadership positions, it is critical that they be the right people for those roles. If that's not the case, companies need to move quickly. Our goal is to get it right the first time; if we don't, it is hard on everybody. - SREs are overworked. Yes, they are! We should be staffed to not need heroics, which is why we're growing the team. We have two new SREs starting soon, and we're hiring at least two more. - Eng leadership and CEO send different messages about company outlook. Startups are roller-coasters. CEOs like to talk about the peaks, managers have to navigate the troughs. That doesn't mean that either one is being misleading about the view from their seat. That said, seems like we should make sure our messages are aligned. - Promotions are hard. For a startup our size, we have a pretty well-defined ladder and promotion process. We clearly need better communication, however. For example, there are no promotion quotas or limits. - Strong engineering eroded by marketing and sales. The top companies in our space spend far more than we do in sales and marketing relative to their size. We should be able to scale up emphasis without eroding our engineering culture, but sounds like we could use some work here. Thanks again for the feedback.