A Grown Up Startup - Senior Account Executive Camera IQ Employee Review

5.0
14 Jan 2022
Recommend
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Pros

I've worked in the VR/AR industry for 5+ years. Seen a lot of good and bad in the industry, in terms of maturity of the companies and general startup battle stories. Camera IQ is by far the most developed in terms of product, employee support, culture and team. The co-founders, Sonia and Allison, are extraordinarily talented while staying super down to earth & personable. The company is well funded and you can tell. The 2 founders led sales through early 2021, they stay close to customers and have a solid understanding of the market. I've worked for a variety of founders, incl engineer founders who never did sales - I found Sonia/Allison's realistic view of where their company sits to be a breath of fresh air. (I saw a previous review on here of a Theranos comparison which made me actually lol because it's sooo far from my experience with Allison/Sonia.). The CIQ platform (core product) is really solid - as a sales person working in VR/AR for several years I have had to grind through the technical growth of this industry. It's been really nice to be selling something and demoing without constant fear of bugs. The product team and dev team have done a great job and kudos to founders for prioritizing product development. Lastly I know this is important when looking at startups: the team does respect work life balance which is also rare in fast growth startups. Most of Camera IQ execs have kids and need a flex work schedule and extend that respect to their reports/colleagues.

Cons

While you do have a ton of support, it's still a startup with aggressive growth targets so you do need to perform and get results quickly.

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5.0
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Pros

World class team of XR professionals

Cons

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5.0
25 Nov 2019
Recommend
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Pros

My time at Camera IQ has honestly been the best years of my life. Firstly, they promote from within. If you step up to the plate and contribute, management will take note of it and reward you for it. How many companies nowadays do that? I was surprised and actually upset to read some of the personal attacks towards the two cofounders on Glassdoor. Both the CEO and COO have ONLY treated me with exceptional kindness. They make sure that I am being paid the market rate or above for my position. They continually check in on me to make sure my workload is manageable. Any time I have given them feedback, they have taken it extremely seriously. They have been honest with me on why certain things are a certain way, and they really actually care about their employees. What more could you ask from your management team? Allison is by far the best CEO I have worked for. This is because she has a HEART. She is emotionally invested in each employees success, and within your first week here you will see it for yourself. She schedules regular 1-1s with everyone, and remembers so much about everyone's life and makes sure we are doing well. The product is exceptionally cool, and we are making a huge difference in an emerging field. I love what I work on. The team here is all full of kind people who are super collaborative. I go to work every day super happy.

Cons

Our team is young. You need to come in with ideas on how to improve things. You need to be vocal and speak up for what you think is right.

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