Pros
Lovely people to work with and you'll learn a lot although, more recently, you learn less from good examples and more from mistakes. Good lunches, Barception and the offices are nice. Flexible working is great and I was able to get any software, trainings or tech that I asked for.
Kontras
A lot of people have given up on giving feedback as it can feel that, at best, it will be ignored and, at worst, it will be held against you and used as evidence that you are not a cultural fit etc. When people stop giving their opinions they are then criticised for not contributing and, when you care about the company and your colleagues, this is a very tiring cycle to watch and be a part of. The move towards a more corporate and ruthless approach wasn't for me. Typeform always used to treat people with respect and empathy but, after a pretty big backlash against what seemed like a never-ending stream of firings, a new set of values were eventually introduced with empathy as one of the focus points. The firings didn't seem to slow down for very long and it felt like Typeform had to try and put a process in place for something that had been a key part of its culture not long previously. One positive thing gained from this was the number of synonyms for firing I learned but, in the end, it just got too distracting and demoralising wondering who was going to be the next one to 'reach an agreement' and trying to make sense of it, and I stopped enjoying my work. Worst of all, after speaking to a number of these ex-employees it became clear that we weren't being told the truth by the Leadership Team which made me generally distrustful of what I was being told by management.
