Pros
Top class colleagues and products. Cross-functional people really care about the success of other teams and lean-in to help out. Continued growth: There are SO many opportunities to expand on a siloed scope and make a big impact. The people who embrace that benefit from lots of development and increased opportunity/mobility. Lastly (and I know it sounds a little cheesy, but it's true), it's the first company I've worked at where you're actually helping to fight crime. Threat actors are actively leveraging GenAI to outsmart conventional cybersecurity, and I take a lot of pride in the fact that we're working to fight that rising tide.
Cons
It's a tremendous amount of work to deliver on this mission, and to build the scalable systems and processes necessary to take a late-stage start up, and help it become a strong public company. Not necessarily a con, but within that workload, of course, are issues that surface around inter-team communication, context switching, and the proverbial "shuffling of the deck." There are times when you're working in a bit of ambiguity, but helping to better define that ball of clay is precisely what unlocks a ton of the development and learning here.
