More than pushing code - Principal Software Engineer Parabol Employee Review

- everything open source === awesome sauce - CEO is very technical - modern and clean codebase - high coding quality standards - inspiring and kind coworkers - incredible high trust in senior and executive leadership - excellent health insurance for US employees

- DE&I could be improved, but we're working on it - no 401K or home office stipend etc., mostly bc we're young and hyper focused on hiring now - the pace can sometimes feel slow compared to a startup that has their blinders on hockey-stick growth above all else

Parabol believes people are able to do their best work when the work feels meaningful to every teammate. The product Parabol makes aspires to help people feel connected to each other and help teams do their best work. Because everybody at Parabol uses Parabol to do their job, it is easy to feel connected to why Parabol exists as a company. Parabol is a values-driven company: Parabol's hiring process is designed to find folks with similar values, even if folks have differing backgrounds or identities. Hiring colleagues who value empathy, experimentation, and transparency helps Parabol's employees build trust and communicate with one another. Parabol is an inclusive, remote-first company. There is no central office. People who work at Parabol include busy parents, folks with eldercare responsibilities, or value personal flexibility, time freedom, and deep work. Parabol tries to minimize mandatory meetings. Parabol defaults to doing work asynchronously, but we're not shy to "upgrade the bandwidth" and collaborate with one another realtime. People work with a high degree of autonomy, and a process exists on every team for suggesting and implementing changes to the way anything on the team or more broadly within the company.

Parabol is a young, growing company. As of this writing (2021), Parabol is fewer than 6 years old. It's dynamic and evolving and each person who Parabol hires has an impact on its culture. As the rate of evolution at Parabol is high, sometimes there isn't "a way" to do something yet. Successful employees must be comfortable with some ambiguity—or better—helping to experiment, find, and write down how things get done.