Pros
It’s amazing to work at a small startup where everyone believes that we will become a billion dollar public company eventually, and where we’re all working to make that happen. It’s going to be a wild ride all the way there. We’re working on several incredibly hard problems at once: turning unstructured data into structured data, developing state-of-the-art unsupervised machine algorithms, processing huge amounts of data using distributed computation techniques. I love coming to work with some of the smartest minds in AI, and that includes our CEO. Our team of highly focused engineers is building features that have direct and immediate business impacts on our huge enterprise and government customers.
Cons
The “get s*** done” culture is not for everyone. We know that none of us can afford to have a bad week, because we’re all so critical to the team and lean, and because there are so many challenges to be tackled.