PagerDuty offer and questions
Have an offer for an EM role at PagerDuty, and would love to hear from anyone currently there, or who worked there in the past: - What's the culture like in terms of collaboration between SWE, Product, Design? - Are there clear feature roadmaps and goals that folks are excited about? (Looking at the product, it doesn't feel like much happening) - Is the new CPO good at setting big goals? - I've heard that some of the "principle architects" are ego jerks. Is this changing? Blind Tax: * Current TC: +/-420k (depends on GOOG) * PD TC: $275k + 20% + $90k = meh?
Doesn't seem like a TC boost at all, why are you looking to leave?
Youāre right. Part of me thinks WTF am I thinking. But Iām so tired of G not hiring great referrals, and yet the hiring bar seemingly getting lower. PD would give me a chance lead a larger team, hire, and have more influence, assuming teams there have a culture of collaboration and actually launch stuff. Iām not so sure.
Gotcha, I know it's tough to turn away from a seemingly good opportunity but you only switch jobs every few years, why not go for an opp that gives you a greater scope of influence AND pays you more than you get on top of that? Funnily enough I'm about to go to G to look for something new too š
Iāve been at PD for a long time. I can answer some of your questions. Hereās my take. - Historically PD has had a problem with UX and not making enough UX enhancements. I think weāre waking up to this, but I still havenāt seen a major enough shift yet - product and eng have historically competed and not been super effective, mostly due to previous ineffectual product leadership and the companyās overemphasis on sales. This is changing as the company is realizing engineering investments are critical to its longterm success. This yearās roadmap is far more eng heavy than previous years - People are generally nice and there is room for growth. However, how motivated and skilled individuals are depends on the team/orgs. Some are on cruise control while others are trying to make moves. Overall PD is a very chill company - the ego issues with the principal architects are less relevant after some departures - the CPO is setting goals and starting to build a narrative around where weāre going, but I would say itās still too early to tell if we are going in the right direction Hope that helps.
This is super helpful. Many thanks for your candor and time to be specific with these details. Thatās been my read fwiw from my interviews. Leadership knows things need to change to grow as a public company, but change hasnāt started and I have not heard clear plans on how teams will be incentivized to set big goals and collaborate towards them.
hey b7jf4dw, can I dm you for a referral?
How long did it take for you to get an offer? Itās been a week and the recruiter says heās collecting feedback from interviewers.
Can you share the breakdown of the pd offer?
Yes itās at the bottom of the post
Can you share your experience?