Pros
Pros: The engineering team — genuinely some of the best people I've worked with.
Cons
Some of the people you meet here will be some of the best you've ever worked with. That's what makes it so hard because they deserve so much better than this place. When you start, the engineering team pulls you in immediately. They're talented, welcoming, and genuinely collaborative. Everyone is trying to lighten each other's load, and before long, those relationships become the only real reason you show up. You notice the same names getting promoted every cycle, the same faces collecting awards, given every stage to stand on, and every opportunity to drive change, while everyone around them is quietly passed over, no matter what they contribute. You realize the owner's children and their inner circle aren't climbing the ladder so much as they were placed at the top of it. You notice the college graduates coming in, hired almost exclusively because they can be paid almost nothing, and you watch them get thrown immediately onto the most escalated, most frustrated clients with no experience and no support. Burn through cheap talent, have sales close another contract. And sales will always close another contract, because they have no real understanding of what the product can actually do. Every partner gets overpromised, every launch becomes a frantic race to build features that should have been scoped honestly from the start. The result is buggy, the clients leave a year later, and somehow the blame always finds its way back to the engineering team, the same team drowning in tech debt, they are never given time to address. The only path to a real raise is a title change, and the only title worth having is manager, so the company has more managers than it has people to manage. Someone literally became the manager of a department of one just to get the raise they'd been asking for. Even that door got shut eventually, gutted through a "pay band restructuring" clause that was quietly dropped and never resolved. Then comes the company-wide huddle where the CEO announces that he wants to replace everyone with AI. You watch him cycle from one experimental tool to the next, the same way leadership cycled through three different CMS platforms in a single year. You raise concerns. You're told that if you don't like it, you're welcome to find employment elsewhere. You lean on the people around you because they're the only thing making any of this bearable. And you wait for a response from another company. As leadership sells out and abandons the ship they've run aground, I can only hope everyone else finds a way out too.