Pros
Great people, decent perks, and been around a long time. Really one of the best employee experiences I’ve ever had.
Cons
In the last couple of years Guru has tried pivot after pivot to no effect. The company has been around for 10 years and had a great product focused on specific roles. The pivot to trying to serve the entire company (then HR, then back to the entire company) kind of destroyed momentum and it has struggled to find product market fit since then. Endless experiments with pricing, messaging, positioning, and more with little to no effect. There have been multiple rounds of layoffs since 2020, all blamed on the macro environment with not enough introspection. I used to really appreciate the amount of transparency all employees had into the state of the business, but that dried up in the last couple of years too (or we were told things were relatively stable when they weren’t).