If you're looking for competitive TC and high spirits, you won't find it here.
Itâs a good spot to be. Happy to chat if you like. Shoot me a DM.
Marqeta got good API docs!
Would not recommend unless you are just optimizing for wanting to work in the East bay
It is really team dependent. I feel like there are some teams which are understaffed and overworked and others which are really over staffed and underworked within the same domain. Lots of growth but not enough focus imo
Run!
It's in serious need of a solid engineers to get shit together and have some standards. But we can't afford them so... đ€·
We have solid engineers. We just suck at identifying and rewarding them and they end up leaving for higher TC. But I think thatâs what you were getting at.
If youâre experienced, worked for more than three employers, please donât come here, itâs dangerous, look elsewhere. Co. lost a lot of good talent and donât even get it. Reach out to people who left on LinkedIn and they will likely share.
This comment, all the way. We staff all our squads with the bare minimum for a squad to run. We then put all our hope into the skeleton crew, and then when anyone leaves, we don't try and counter offer (bc we can't compete), and then we'll try and find someone else to continue rowing the sinking ship of a product. What can we learn from this? (Good) employees are not simply replaceable, and each departure hits us hard and we deserve it bc we aren't learning our lessons. The squad model isolates all the engineers to only know a small part, and so there's literally only one engineer sometimes that knows something enough to actually work on it efficiently, so when we lose them, a lot of knowledge leaves, and the product continues to sink even lower. We are so stingy AF, and so we can't get good talent, nor keep our good talent. We prioritize ship rate like a god, instead of engineering quality, and so our PMs just prance around touting about how much they've produced, while the quality would make any reputable engineering company wince.
A good chunk of our management are incredibly political, and so much rides solely on impressions, and perceived ship rate. This leads to disgruntled ICs, attrition, and these same managers just moving into higher positions. It's disgusting. We need a better way to review our own managers, and bring the muck into the light.
Reviewing managers have been mentioned by multiple people and I think itâs an excellent idea!
Itâs good. Less fluff than SF companies. More substance.