Pros
Rebuy operates in an exciting niche and the core technology has real potential. The people doing the actual work are talented and genuinely care about what they’re building. The broader company outside of product and engineering appears to function well.
Cons
The product and engineering organization is in a state of significant dysfunction. Decisions are made top-down and then framed as collaborative. Strategic direction shifts constantly with little follow-through, and basic operational autonomy is undermined regularly. There is a heavy reliance on AI tooling as a substitute for actual thinking. Communications, reviews, and strategic documents are visibly generated with minimal human judgment applied, which erodes trust quickly. Reorganizations happen frequently, and are announced before they are fully thought through. Good work gets ignored, appropriated, or quietly discarded. People who raise legitimate concerns or push back respectfully find their input dismissed, their contributions overlooked, and in some cases their roles quietly diminished or restructured around them.
