Point Inside Reviews

Caveat - I have been with PI for just one week thus far. Open space structure - no separation between leadership and workers - actually no feel of "class" differences at all. Family oriented environment. Having FUN means something - enjoying the workplace means something - getting input across the floor means something. Life Work balance means something. Acknowledging each other for contributions means something. Solving impediments TOGETHER versus calling out failures of groups or individuals means something. Valuing and asking feedback from everyone involved - strongly pursued and appreciated within the office (even the newest person - day 1 on the job). Brilliant passionate people focused on the customer and the path to be better and better - SOLID on setting company values and roadmaps and following them. Weekly meeting across all departments set aside specifically to just "sync" on current efforts and to help each other. Genuine interest across everyone to help each other.

Management has done a great job of picking a specific strategy, communicating it well, and sticking with it. We have platform that could be sold to lots of different types of businesses, but we have focused on a specific industry (retail) and a specific market segment. This is not always easy for a start up and shows the maturity of the management team and the CEO in particular. Secondly, as an engineer it's rare to find a company with as many interesting technical challenges as we have. From big data analytics to the mobile platform and in between everyone has interesting problems to solve and are using modern cloud hosted tools and tech to solve them. I've learned how to use Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Node.js, and more since I've been here.