I loved working there - Exec LogicBlox Employee Review

I have worked at LogicBlox for almost 5 years, and have been a professional software engineer for 13 years. LogicBlox is a special company to work for. We offer tough problems to solve, stunning colleagues to work with, and flexible working arrangements. The work here is deep and fascinating enough to require and attract top-shelf talent both from industry and academia despite not being located in tech hot spots like Silicon Valley or NYC. We tackle big, difficult problems and insist on excellent engineering quality in our platform. Our company is low drama, low politics, and high flexibility. We have a very flat organization (roughly 96% engineers, 4% G&A / management) with highly committed and down-to-earth management/team leads. We have trust in each other to be responsible stewards for the company, which is what allows us to have a a great remote working policy (half the company works remotely) and an unlimited vacation policy. We have regular (probably 1 a week on average) talks open to the company either from staff, applicants or academic collaborators which run gamut from demos of ongoing work to internal design proposals to presentations of CS thesis material. Regardless of your background, if you work at LogicBlox you will (forcibly) learn new things all the time and be encouraged to do so.

For me there aren't cons. For those who prefer more hierarchical organizations, LogicBlox does not offer that. I agree with another reviewer who said that it is required to be comfortable with ambiguity and immature technology. To me that is a plus, because it means there is a lot of opportunity for new employees to have a major impact and try to pitch and implement their ideas.

If you want to work at a place that's building really innovative technology, where you're very unlikely to be bored, where the process is light and organization is flat, where sales people are almost too good, then this is the place for you. It's difficult to find a bigger concentration or blend of talent. You got the people with a heavy theoretical bend, working along side people who are solid, practical engineering wizards, along people who can phrase the technology in a way people will money will buy. It's not free of office drama; but it's unlikely you will find a place that has as little drama as this place.

It's a place that people who are comfortable with ambiguity will thrive. If you like to know exactly what the roadmap is for the next year and feel irritated when the roadmap changes 3 months into the year, then this is probably not the place for you. If you are uncomfortable with using immature technology -- supporting immature technology, then this is not the place for you. The company's product is definitely on its way to being a mature one, but by definition of being innovative, it's not there yet. If you want a clear "career path", e.g. after 2 years you get promoted from senior to principal developer, or from associate consultant to managing consultant, then this is not the place for you. It's a small company that just doesn't have all those type of process in place yet. You need to aggressively going after the skills you want to gain, yourself.