Pros
Altana is filled with many talented and smart individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. Individual contributors are provided the autonomy to solve challenging puzzles, making the work highly fulfilling. This autonomy extends to decision-making, empowering individuals to make significant contributions to customer outcomes. The company’s product vision is ambitious and has successfully rallied the support of reputable investors, partners and customers. Commercially, the company has experienced drastic success in the recent period and has delivered considerable value and earned huge amounts of trust with its government, logistics and enterprise clients.
Cons
Employees are expected to carve their own path with little direction and support from others. This isn't intentional, but rather the consequence of a company evolving quickly and tackling many complex and high stakes puzzles at the same time. This rapid pace leaves little room for the company to focus on people development, with a huge tendency to prioritize outcomes. There is huge intolerance for underperformance, which leads to frequent dismissals, which has hurt team morale.