Pros
The salary and benefits are great. Unlimited PTO is awesome and people don’t care if you take some days off ; There are amazing people with deep knowledge of crypto. It’s a good place to learn about it
Cons
There is no continuous work quarter over quarter and goals change a lot. The teams try to tackle a lot of bets at the same time and there’s no time to go deep. New Product are develop based on top downs ONLY. Firing people like it is nothing: people are constantly fired, including C level. It is a reflection of confusion on goals and when someone disagrees or doesn’t do exactly what they want, they are let go, no matter if it is C-level or not. The turnover is something to consider, especially with people being let go for no specific reason. They treat people like it’s nothing. BE MINDFUL OF IT. The leaders don’t lead. In general, leaders are not worried about people’s psychological safety, don’t have proximity to develop or share feedback, and some of them are toxic just to justify the “execution” culture. The engineering/product/design leaders don’t agree on priorities and leave it to the teams to decide -when it’s clearly their job to do so. When you have a blocker, don’t count on your leader, they are not there to help you or your career. Terrible communication: as things change a lot, you never know what is the change of the month - so you don’t know what to focus on. Also, the leaders don’t seem to talk to each other. If you want to learn what the teams are doing, you need to join thousands of slack channels to keep informed, which is impossible to get track of everything. Weird culture: People try to get credit for things they didn’t do, and no psychological safety to share difficult situations with leaders. In practice, Bitso cultivate a feature-factory mindset and don’t care about development best practices, don’t care if a new feature will increase tech debit, don’t care about discovery (and the ones that questioned that were fired at some point): they want to see a roadmap and dates - which is seen as a commitment, no space for changes unless you explain everything in detail. The engineering and product culture are the worst. Also, everything is a priority: They want everything for yesterday AND they want all things at the same time. You try to prioritize and show the impact but they keep questioning. If the leaders agree on the priority, in the next week they will ask you why feature x is not fixed yet - well, it was agreed that way. This wears out a lot and prevents teams from delving into solutions. Other things to mention: diversity is not that important, even though the company support diversity of culture the team is majority male and white. It’s not clear what takes for people to get promoted, you need to have that in mind.
