Some diamonds in the rough, but not worth it. - Senior Software Engineer Owner.com Employee Review

Owner has the holy trinity of any start up: 1) a Mission that's real and helps normal people (not just people in tech) 2) rapid growth and financial success -- the fundamentals of the business are very sound, the leadership team is stacked. Founder / CEO is brilliant and human. 3) A pretty strong culture (if a bit uneven in pockets, see below). If you're an ambitious person who wants to be part of a winning company, feel good about the work you're doing / impact you're having, and like your co-workers, you will thrive at Owner.

The pace comments mentioned here aren't exaggerating. Only work here if you like working hard. You can have a full life: many successful people at Owner are involved parents or have busy lives outside of work. But they still work very hard. It's one of the reasons the company has been so successful. One other potential con is uneven-ness in management experience. This is not unique to Owner, any start up that is growing fast and promoting internally faces this issue. What it means is sometimes certain teams or people might have a different cultural experience than Owner's standard. But this should improve as the company matures and develops its leaders more consistently.

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Where to start? First off, don't trust any of the reviews here. New hires are *strongly* encouraged to leave a review within their first month. The culture is rotten from the top down. The obsession over the company values is like something out of a cult. This place is a whirlpool of constantly shifting priorities based on the whims of the exec team. The baseline expectation for employees is 50-60 hours a week. The latest are sweeping AI mandates where the expectation is that all devs increase "velocity" by 5-10x, ie a thinly veiled overtime mandate. Insane deadlines are thrown around to generate pressure to perform. Performance reviews are a farce. This is one of the most political workplaces I have ever had the misfortune to operate in. Devs need to spend an inordinate amount of time marketing themselves internally. EM's do not represent or defend their teams. Work itself is interesting at times, but things are also largely disorganized, poorly defined, and often have conflicting buy-in from execs. Priorities and staffing shift so often to the detriment of actually delivering anything, at least with any semblance of work life balance.