Technically interesting, very bad "work-life balance" - Software Engineer Skyera Employee Review

there were a great culture and team of some amazing individuals

the cons are that the covid hit and its a lot harder to convince people why our product was worth investing in

Skyera has created one hell of a product. Hardware is beyond any storage company has ever achieved. The product can cram up to (or more) than 100X storage in 1U form factor than some of the competitors and at much less the cost. There is a lot of very interesting work left to be done. This creates a tremendous learning opportunity for people who want to grow technically. My guess is Skyera can easily use many many more software engineers. Some of the other challenges that create great learning opportunity is "how to do more in less" as in "how to get more IOPS with less CPU, memory etc.", how to work closely with hardware, challenging the common assumption etc. . Most other storage companies are really software companies with big-honking-off-the-shelf-hardware where these technical challenges are non-existent and hence, less learning and more of the traditional stuff. Some VPs are really good. Especially, the new ones with extensive software background.

Like every place I have worked in my life, this place has challenges too. Many things can use improvement including better planning. A disadvantage of having great hardware brains at work can be under-estimation on software side. Fortunately, both the above seem to be improving. The company has been trying to do too much with too little people. It would be great if some use cases can be dropped. That will create more realistic schedules. CEO should scale better by more delegation. It's improving but more is desired