Pros
- Collaborative culture where people manner and feedback is greatly valued - Quality of candidate screening process - not a unilateral decision; every one on the team has a say - Work/Life balance: Able to leave at a decent hour and not expect a flood of emails in the evening or over weekends - Ability to grow professionally: management cares about fostering your talent and giving you opportunities to network, test/expand your skills, increase your responsibilities - Working cross-functionally: high likelihood to work with various teams and departments, rather than being siloed - On-boarding experience: thoughtful coaching, buddy system, well-paced training materials for sales and marketing staff - Visibility and transparency: Upper management is open about their plans/goals/initiatives, and regularly shares feedback and answers questions in bi-weekly company-wide huddles - Company events/socials: Fun company happy hours, team lunches, holiday parties, great company spirit - Wellness: Free food every day and fitness classes offered, great gym - Pay and equity: competitive pay and wonderful equity package for all employees - Dog-friendly policy: such a great way to boost morale and liven up the workplace - Quality of leaders/managers: thoughtful and careful selection of our leaders pays off, each executive team leader is respectable, highly motivating and effective at moving the organization forward - Great internship program and community involvement (e.g. Gratitude Lunch and Engineering After School program)
Cons
- Reign in your egos, middle-management: Despite everyone having equity in the company and boasting the "people first" motto, many middle-management leaders/directors posses and exhibit some serious egos. Rather than being collaborative, they have a tendency to shut down ideas, speak dismissively. - Exec managements limited understanding of B2B sales/marketing: As a marketing team member, it feels as though we are constantly fighting a battle to prove our worth and justify our spend. While, yes, marketing is responsible to generating pipe/bookings, there are countless other impacts that are immeasurable. - Not enough engineering support for marketing: Making a minor update to a website should not take over a month. Need to be able to advantageously explore digital marketing opportunities without waiting months for the next open sprint. - Avoiding personnel issues: We promote being a culture that is humble and not arrogant, respectful and not mean, but there are some employees who receive multiple warnings about being rude, dismissive, arrogant and mean, but still remain employed and/or just get shifted to another role. I'm not sure if skating around the issue is the best way to foster these values. - Too many presentations - QBR, Monthly Reviews, "How Marketing Works" impromptu decks - the list goes on. - Lack of or always-shifting product roadmap - Chasing a moving target - Delayed forecasts and sales models creates inefficiencies, unnecessary worry/concern
