Pros
- The engineering and science-facing teams are very knowledgeable and great to work with. Most of them are truly dedicated to TetraScience's mission. - The health insurance plans are fantastic, and employees are actually permitted to take time off under the unlimited PTO policy. - The company product and mission fill a real scientific need of making scientific data more available.
Cons
When I first joined TetraSceince a few years ago, I would have said that the work environment was fantastic. However, the culture has eroded and become substantially more toxic and fear-based. - The CTO lacks familiarity with the company's product, and frequently makes promises to customers before the product can support the customer needs, forcing employees to scramble last minute to try to close this gap. This also manifests as a lack of a real scientific/technical focus. Employees are too exhausted to stand up to him and tell him that his statements are not backed up my reality. - The leadership team seems only interested in sucking up to the CEO out of concern for their jobs. This has produced a fear-based culture, where employees are too scared for their jobs to voice valid concerns or provide alternative solutions. - There is a profound lack of diversity within leadership, leading to systemic misogynistic attitudes. Multiple employees have reached out to HR to offer to start DEI groups within the company to support employees but were told that there is no cultural issue, and that the CEO would not approve of these initiatives. - Raises and promotions are slow and infrequent, and there is no 401k match. There is also little room for career advancement. - The company use to be very transparent with its employees about business goals, but recently has become completely opaque, while still touting how “radically transparently” the leadership team is.