Pros
- Experienced and diverse team. Top-notch performers in the lab, design, engineering, business, and operations teams. - The mission of making genetics accessible to everyone, for example to reduce the impact of cancer, is incredible. - Founders combine software, biology, and operational excellence. Between them there's experience in medical pathology, bioinformatics engineering, cancer biology, running large-scale products at Google and Twitter, starting successful companies in the past, investing in and advising to top silicon valley companies (Stipe, Airbnb, Pinterest), and so on. - Everyone is humble. No power plays, no politics, no hidden information. Great culture of openness. - Good work-life balance (part of having an experienced team). Long hours are very uncommon. Effective hours are very common. - State of art technology in the genomics space. - Financial prospects look great.
Kontras
- Location is not great, kind of stuck in a place that's not quite SF but not quite south bay, so everyone has a commute. Somewhat inflexible on remote work opportunities.