Pros
- Inspiring and purposeful work (helping creatives across the globe!) - Company owners and senior management genuinely care and try to do a great job. - They've kept a consistent vision, since they started, to be a company that helps people. - Envato grew quickly and worked VERY hard at keeping their culture pointed in a positive direction. No company is perfect, but they work hard to identify where they're lacking and figure out how to improve. - They work very hard to find great people. - They are financially responsible as a company. This is good in many ways, but I often see / hear people upset that they aren't as generous on salary, etc. as competitors. I think this is true, but in my experience they've worked hard to ensure people are fairly, but responsibly compensated. - Extremely remote working friendly, and they work hard to enable an adaptable work environment to people's individual needs (family, schedules, etc).
Cons
- The company is growing up and going through another stage of growing pains. For many at the company from prior years, this is uncomfortable and doesn't seem to be moving in the direction of working environment many of them prefer. There are aspects of it I didn't particularly like, but I understand the intention behind the shift. - They have a strong culture of being "nice" to each other, which has good intentions but often gets in the way of getting things done, so things can move VERY slowly as people are trying to be too nice (respectful and professional vs walking on eggshells constantly) . - Doesn't seem to have the "move fast and break things" mentality any more and is much more risk averse, significantly holding back real innovation. - Over the years I felt Envato needlessly lost many great, passionate, and talented people that deeply cared about contributing to Envato's mission. To some degree this is probably normal, though it was difficult to see and often didn't appear to make sense.