Pluspunten
- Exciting growth and high energy for the work - Good problems to solve and work on - Belief in what you're doing is helping someone - The 'cult following' of users of the product is really impressive (product market fit) - Good for individuals who are told what to do and 'individual contributors'
Minpunten
- Little to no planning for product or data teams in my experience. A quarter 'plan' is done for each product team but it basically is a glorified one-pager (this should get better as a new CPO was just hired but still 3-6 months out for data). - Prioritization is nearly impossible while not having clear company, department/tribe, and team/squad goals (and measurements or progress on these goals). - Lack of structure and processes make cross-collaborative projects, teams, and roles set up for failure here. In some companies, you say teams are set up like silos but come together for larger topics. It's the coming together that just isn't happening, which makes the here silos made of concrete. - Little to no support from management (my management or above) when team issues, struggles, and process improvements were suggested. - Work is very transactional...big backlog and "who has time to work on this" every week. - Not much culture...getting 'social' with employees (regardless of corona) really shows per the silos ^ - HR is only brought into it when something needs to be signed - very administrative. - Lower salary in comparison to others.
