Pros
Pretty much none, exciting use cases
Kontras
Arrogant founder, very rigid way of thinking, over simplifies sales and ultimately works against you. Micro manager CEO who doesn’t actually understand GTM at all, like being bossed around my a tuna sandwich
Pros
I get to do things I'm totally unqualified for - which is a little scary, but also hugely rewarding. I've grown more in the last two years, than in the previous five. The team is great - nice, smart, dedicated people who really care about the mission. The entire company is like one big team, pushing towards the same goal. I love being able to work so closely with our users - who are themselves doing incredible things. I literally get to talk to bleeding-edge rocket, robotics and nuclear engineers to understand how they build, and ship features that help them build faster. I feel fortunate to have built great relationships with some of the most senior engineers at the top next-gen hardware companies. The tight feedback loop of ‘request -> ship -> thanks’ is what I find most rewarding. The day-to-day work is a nice blend of technical challenges and human/UX challenges. One day I might be working on a graph traversal problem, another day I might be trying to figure out how to make complex information more digestible.
Kontras
Early-stage startups are hard. You make up a large proportion of the entire company, so although you get a huge amount of ownership and responsibility, there's also accountability that comes with that. If you're looking for a role where you can coast, this isn't the place for you.
Pros
Flow has been a pretty wild ride. Huge ups and downs as with any startup. You should come to Flow if you're looking to maximise your impact on the world, and maximise your own personal development along the way. Flow has tested me in positive ways, and enabled me to do things that I didn't think I could do. The customers are pretty cool too. We get to meet (literal) rocket scientists, automotive engineers and robotics engineers daily. They use our software to design some of the most important technologies for the world. This is hugely gratifying. We get to see inside some of the most important hardware companies in the world. Flow really believes in speed and ownership, so people here get to make decisions (good or bad), implement them, see the results and iterate in days rather than months of politics.
Kontras
Flow is not the place for people optimising for work life balance. The customers and company demands a lot from their people to keep the pace up. For people excited by going "all in" for this part of their career, there's nothing like it.