Pros
Very hard working and intelligent group of ICs, fun to work around. WFH is very relaxed, can keep your camera off during all meetings and no one complains.
Cons
CEO is Marin Tchakarov, previous CFO. History of leading failed startups, very cagey and private, sneaky, underhanded. Previous CEO was more people-focused, open and honest. Leadership is a revolving door, VP-suite seems to cycle out every year due to misalignment with CEO. Leadership has no robotics experience, lots of head scratching decisions made and no overall shared vision of success. Not sure how they are hanging around. Lack of diversity. The leadership team turned into all white males in 2020. Toxic leadership style CEO, preaches "visibility" but makes odd moves behind the scenes without consulting SME or managers. CEO has not brought in a single leadership hire, which speaks volumes. HR is barely servicable when it comes to people operations, HR is only there to protect the business and almost clueless in just that capacity (Kindred is being sued by previous employees). Engineering seems to pivot annually, VP of Eng couldn't seem to get on board with company goals, had no robotics experience and finally left last month to go back to software. Each time the org pivots results in a massive waste of time, money, and an incalculable cost of human effort. Lots of burnout on the Eng team.
