Worth Taking a Second Look - Machine Learning Engineer Liftoff Employee Review

2.0
27 Feb 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart coworkers. Professional vibe. Feeling of being on winning team. Flexible hours. Interesting and challenging work. Good Perks. Frequent mid-day offsites.

Cons

Below market pay. Often overworked—often busy over weekends. Founders not transparent about company direction. Supervisors don’t keep promises, with ever-changing expectations and demands. Those who keep up are praised, but it’s just soo much work, for less pay. Also: Rumors of gender discrimination, from female coworkers and female friend who interviewed. Also: Equity is overhyped by leadership. This industry is known for being brutal, and most companies like this go to zero. But they talk about their stock options (with high strike prices) like it was a bar of gold.

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Liftoff Response
8y
Hi, I'm the CTO of Liftoff and lead the engineering team. I would like to respond to this review because I am quite confident that it is written by someone who has never worked at Liftoff, and either posted in error or maliciously. The reasons for this are: - Only one ML Engineer has ever left Liftoff, and they were at Liftoff >1 year - It contains several assertions that are factually incorrect, and which would be known to be so by anyone who's worked at Liftoff. In particular: - We don't work on weekends (on the contrary we value work-life balance and working in a way that's long-term sustainable) - We closely follow market benchmarks for compensation to make sure our pay and equity are always competitive I also want to directly address some of the other points/allegations, because we view them as very important: - Transparency: Transparency is one of our core values. For example, every quarter we have a "roadmap" all-hands meeting where Eng presents the roadmap for the quarter, Finance shares all our core financial numbers, and Mark our CEO discusses the broad direction and strategic topics. - Gender discrimination: We strive to build a diverse community at work where people can be their authentic selves and feel accepted and included. We have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind. A proof point for our success in this is that we were recently named the 8th best place to work in America by Inc. Magazine, which bases its ranking on anonymous surveys of all employees.

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Liftoff Response
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Thank you for your review - we wish you best success in your career.
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Liftoff Response
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Thanks for the feedback and we wish you best success on your next chapter.
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