Avantages
- The coworkers at your level are fantastic; there's some great talent working here
- Lots of insight into the reality of hype behind AI and generative AI
- Relatively high pay for the market
Inconvénients
There is no plan. This place is an utter dumpster fire. You will work on nothing that actually bolsters your resume, and will instead spend all your time catering to the CEO.
I have never seen a company have so many meetings and get so little done as a result of them. More time is spent on endless iterations of powerpoint decks than on actually building the product.
Roadmap? What roadmap? It's entirely the CEO's whimsy. What the product can actually do and what's being pitched are worlds away. You can't bring that up, though - as another review pointed out, you'll simply be told "you don't get it", they'll explain it to you all over again, and you'll have to sit there nodding, bewildered, and questioning the life choices that led you here.
Work life balance is an utter joke. The expectation is for all staff to work overtime, every day, including weekends and holidays. Setting boundaries around not working late, early, or more than 50 hours in a given week was frowned upon. People who worked until 3 am for a single one-hour presentation to a customer were lauded as exemplary, but that level of sacrifice resulted in little more than the CEO's approval. No bonus, no raise, just the expectation to do it again.
If you have a sense of self worth, want to grow your career, or just not be miserable at work - steer clear.