Pros
- Nice office view with rooftop access
- Some free decent snacks and drinks
- Some new projects with modern tech stacks and fast learning experience for new grads.
- Good insurance coverages.
Kontras
- CEO practices are mostly trying to boost short term profitability and margin. Sales and engineering have huge layoffs recently, but not finance department. This could be sign of boosting immediate margin, but the business seems hanging on a tight rope.
- Bad engineering practices. bandaging fixes for both legacy apps like Atlas, Beacon, and data pipeline. No plan for proper maintenance, refactor and upgrade of legacy code bases.
- Critical crawling is unreliable and susceptible to changes of data provider term of services.
- Company culture: Stackline expecting superhuman employees like Tiktok, but pay is far below the industry work effort you are putting into.
- Most folks under Engineering and Data Science teams are constantly discussing of interview preparation to attempt escaping the sinking ship.