Amazing potential derailed by poor engineering leadership - Engineer Stacklet Employee Review

2.0
Apr 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

There is an excellent market for the product and the company is very effective at lining up customers. The engineers are generally polite, kind, diverse, and pleasant to spend time with. Some of them are incredibly smart and generous. Cloud Custodian is interesting and fun to work with. Fully remote.

Cons

From the top down, the team is primarily experienced with legacy open source technologies and inexperienced with engineering developments from the last decade. This includes modern SaaS development and devops. There is also a poor understanding of customer expectations with regard to quality, security and user experience. The end result is a team struggling to deliver what would be an extremely simple product in the hands of a high performing engineering team.

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Stacklet Response
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Thank you for this review and for highlighting the incredible talent, diversity, and positivity of our engineering team. We value your thoughts and opinions. At Stacklet, we are building a team of engineering professionals from a variety of both personal and professional backgrounds. Like many early stage start-ups, our initial hires were mostly from our professional networks. However, that is quickly shifting as we grow and seek new talent. With regard to our customers, one of our Core Values is “Customer Focus,” which focuses on adding value to our customers where it matters most. To that end, we have recently hired a brilliant Customer Success Manager to ensure that we are not only listening to and responding quickly to our customers needs, but are also growing in a way that exceeds their expectations. We feel that we’ve hired the best talent to help bring all of the many components of our product together so that they become seamlessly integrated. Our current CTO is the creator Cloud Custodian and has years of hands-on engineering experience. Additionally, he welcomes feedback from the team. If there is specific feedback for him, I encourage you to either offer it to him directly or speak with P&C or our CEO. Our (virtual) doors are always open, we know that every voice at Stacklet is an important one, and we deeply value transparency (it is also one of our Core Values).

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