Pros
• Team: Being in a small team means you can really create strong bonds between your colleagues, and overcome challenges together. Every single person is more than happy to help out. • Flexibility: You can work from home, or any one of the offices on the Desana network, not just in your home country :) Myself and two colleagues spent a month working from Lisbon and are planning to work from Athens for a month this year. What an incredible opportunity to explore the world. I've had such fun trying the spaces out in London (and have now found my favourite spaces which I enjoy visiting often. • Trust: We given pretty much full autonomy over your role. You're trusted to get on with it and get the job done without micromanagement. • Clear progression: There is a clear and tangible path for progression to the next level up, and you are asked to use real world examples to meet the criteria for the next skill level and pay grade. •Respect: My thoughts, challenges and opinions are listened to and considered, more so than in any other job I've held so far. • Variation in your day to day: Being a start up, processes are still being created, built and implemented regularly. This means, if you're up for it, you can get involved with other departments and learn from experts in that field. • Equipment: you have a budget especially for getting the right equipment for you to work from home comfortably. I prefer mac to pc also, so was glad to find they provide mac books. • Social events: As we are fully remote, that means that when we do get to meet as a team, we can go all out. We've been to Birch, and trips to Edinburgh. I'm excited to see where we may go next. • We have access to Spill mental health which is awesome Since joining Desana, I can truly say that I've not experienced the Sunday night dread even once!
Cons
• Remote working can sometimes be isolating, and you miss water cooler chat. • Not really a con, but a way of working preference thing. You must be comfortable working autonomously and independently to thrive here.