Pros
At the time at least, exciting opportunities to work on an innovative product and to gain experience with hardware, manufacturing, electrical engineering, etc. A great team that was doing their best and executing in a challenging environment (internally and externally)
Cons
My experience matched the one described in the one star review posted on Oct 28, 2018 named "Manipulative and Unethical Leadership - stay away!" very closely. I had hoped that in the time since I left Kinsa they had grown up as an organization and changed their ways but clearly this has not happened. If you're a software engineer looking to work at Kinsa know that prior to Kinsa the top management of this company had zero software experience and yet they had very strong opinions about how software development projects should be managed in ways that go against basic widely accepted practices. One example that jumps to mind is explaining to the CEO that adding more engineers to an already late project often makes it even later due to rampup and increased coordination overhead. His completely serious response was that each new addition to the team should yield a 10x improvement to the velocity of the project. He refused to accept that teams often don't even scale linearly on a headcount/velocity basis. You don't need to refer to you copy of The Mythical Man Month to know that this is utter insanity.
