Pros
The pay was competitive for the industry.
Cons
The work culture is very toxic. This was set by the founder and CEO of Dataengine. While working there I watched 5 people join the business and resign because of the way they were treated by the CEO. He does not support his people, was always quick to blame people and was not receptive to feedback. The churn rate of employees was extremely high (5 people in 12 months with only 7-12 people in the team) and everyone left for the same reasons, which were never properly addressed. The CEO generally liked to blame all the issues in projects on anyone that wasn't him, it was never his fault. He plays favourites, and if you fall out of favour you'll be next on the blame train. Once I found an employee literally crying after work because he got bad "feedback". Feedback at Dataengine consists of the CEO taking you into a room and listing all the things you are doing badly. The CEO would love to tell us how we were part of a dynamic startup, and we should be happy about working on all the cool "new tech". But Dataengine never did any of the things that make working at a start up worth it. No ESOP even though we were all taking the risk of working in a very early stage business, no fun culture of hustling to get stuff done, just blaming people for not delivering or screwing things up. I had a "career dvelopment" chat in which I thought I would get some indication of how the early employees would be rewarded for growing the business, getting new people on board and generally dealing with the stress of working in a cash poor start up. But instead I was told that "there is opportunity to grow in the business".