I know director there who is hiring, DM me for intro. I hear the same as above, and comp apparently great for this stage.
It’s super chill. The sky is the limit in tech funding atm. Come join up.
How’s the analytics team?
Eng is pretty solid , newish leadership that are trying to do the right thing Just make sure you know who will manage you
Talked to them alot. Seems like they have a really bad tech stack. At their core they bare just doing normalization of data + some analysis. But don't have a comprehensive story on how to do that. Seems half assed and just happens to be successful because their competitor is a spreadsheet emailed between family estates.
Following here. How is revenue growth?
we had some years that were "just okay" (~30%), but our latest year or so have been incredible. awesome trajectory.
Any chance of an IPO?
What about the tech comments above? Is there a lot of tech debt?
I mentioned this in another post , but long story short their tech stack is terrible. Idk where to start but addepar has problems throughout the stack. Starting at the infra level, their deployment pipelines are so bad that they can barely release code once every two months. Not only do they have problems with releasing code , but also they have problems with creating new apps on top of addepars core APIs due to infrastructure issues. They keep saying that they will have a core API platform that can service all of addepars apps but they fail to do so partially due to the terrible infrastructure. As for the backend codebase , it’s one gigantic Java monolith with tech debt all around. There is coupling between parts of the codebase that are completely unrelated. Making changes is a pain but product keeps pushing down unrealistic roadmaps. Engineering leadership talks about splitting up the codebase into a service oriented architecture but they have only paid lip service to it so far. And to make things worse , developer experience is not even thought about. It’s an after thought at best The frontend is heavily comprised of ember and JavaScript. The ember version addepar is on is so old that there isn’t even that much support available from the larger ember community. It’s old and working on this UI is a pain due to ember To make matters worse , the engineering leadership is not concerned with any of these issues. They only care about keeping product happy which just means trying to push out as many features as possible, regardless of the tech debt concerns surrounding it The engineering leadership does not really seem to care about engineers . The CTO comes from black rock and coming from a finance background he seems to view engineers as code monkeys. To make matters worse they keep hiring directors of engineering from black rock and AWS who keep treating engineers poorly Overall addepar is more of a finance company than a tech company. Tech here is not the main concern , regardless of how they portray themselves. The top line growth has also slowed down considerably and the founder of addepar, Joe lonesdale , has launched a new company (LIT) that seems to compete directly with addepar for part of its business Upper management is clueless and are running in a million different directions. If you have other options I would recommend to avoid this place
Had a roommate who worked for them, at their Newyork office. Had a pretty chill WLB and seemed to enjoy her work!
which team?
I have no idea, she is some sort of data engineer!