Whats their product again? Something military?
Lots of autonomy, flat hierarchy that has gotten less flat over time but still pretty flat, engineers get to make decisions on what (not just how) they build for a customer, and culture is the best. Only problem is remote work is reserved for those who have been around for a while. Rest of us are expected to be in-office even if none of your team is in-office.
Does the Bear Cave negative report have any truth to it?
Nah, we genuinely have a really strong platform for using ai copilots in the enterprise. This just happens to fall perfectly in line with the use cases for LLMs. We’ve always believed in AI + Human Review. This works way better with LLMs than with something like cost optimization for example (which is what we’ve historically tried to use ai for). I’ve seen first-hand companies that tried for 1 or 2 months to use LLMs, get it up and running in days on our software.
Depends on team, some are really wonderful to work at - and some can be soul crushing. In general though, lots of flexibility and you get to build things out quickly - but the infra can be shaky, and the Kool aid is prominent.
Very accurate description tbh. Unfortunately I’m on the more soul crushing side lol
What makes it soul crushing?