Pros
+ You'll get paid a bunch, probably overpaid for the target market and age of BigPanda + Great work life balance, your manager may not even notice you're there. + Outside of engineering life is good. + Food, Parking, Bathrooms, Break Area. + Customer satisfaction & retention + Industry leader in AIOps for a time + Stock options
Cons
- No one in the US office has been around very long. - Poor leadership that lacks integrity - Underwhelming start-up experience at all levels (first time CEO, "CTO" and "CMO" are lost in the sauce) - Heavily inflated sales quotas by 2-4x (how do you think you can achieve 600% YoY growth? Don't sell anything the previous year!!) - Over hired, underperforming sales development reps hurting organization for years - Junior level sales reps hired with a negative track record, then left. - Sales reps sourced from failing companies because of relationships. - Diluted territories and opportunities. (Literally one day every sales rep was made a regional director) - Quota accelerators met when unrealistic side goals achieved = no integrity - Quarterly commission payout and unresolved payout errors = no integrity - Light dispersion The office is overcrowded, engineers are sitting at clumsy manual lift tables, literally elbow-to-elbow with your neighbor. Some engineers get stuck on the end of a table and have people walking and bumping their chair all day. Some employees squat in conference rooms, or breakroom, just to get some room to work. In the US office if you aren't seen at work doing work you're a waste of salary and your name will go into a black book. The people leadership at BigPanda range from competent to severely incompetent and lazy. Especially on the customer success side. One VP in particular is a slave-driver that assigns too much work and a short deadline, when they couldn't even do the work themselves because they have no idea what the work entails. Overall it's just a terrible, loud, and unorganized place to work. The middle/upper management is the WORST I've seen in my career. I'm surprised anything gets done. My biggest regret is that I didn't quit sooner. My second biggest regret is that I didn't get to see the projects I develop to the end. My third regret is I accepted any stock offering from this company and didn't take the salary increase.
