I have interviews coming up with Argo AI. Seems like a good late-stage/pre-ipo startup to work for. My questions are - 1. If they are going public next year, is it too late to join and reap the benefits of stock appreciation? 2. How is the culture overall? I am interviewing for the Embedded Software org. #argoai #startup #ipo
Not too late. Join. We are going places and there’s still huge upside potential IMO. Culture - we work hard but I have always felt seen and appreciated here. There is an active effort to continually improve things, no complacency. Compensation is good. Everyone is technical up to and including the CEO. I have huge respect for the entire leadership team, especially in autonomy. I’ve previously worked at 2x FAANG (hope I don’t dox myself lol) and this is the best job I’ve had. Downsides - the tooling and infra are a bit immature. It’s being worked on but hard to prioritize it feels like. There have been big improvements in the last year.
That seems pretty good. I am ok to work hard but as you can see the company I am at - super tired of this non-empathetic culture. At Argo, would you say people are close-knit and socialize? Are there any happy hours, etc? How about company events?
Very isolating and unhelpful. Everyone does their own stuff and it's next to impossible to get anyone from the team on call to get issues resolved. People only talk during scheduled standups and that's it. I am L4 in an overworked team of all senior people. Teammates don't ever talk about anything outside work. Socializing I can't even imagine.
I think you will get about the same number of shares as those who joined in last two years.
when was last round?
More than 2 years ago
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