Upsun Reviews

The cons can be the other side of the pros I think. Depending of what you like and where you are in your career, the company being remote and growing a lot may not be for you. Remote means you need to put in the extra effort to meet the people and interact (but everyone is quite approachable, so it is not hard). It can feel lonely if it is not your thing. And because it is growing, it can be bit chaotic at times, processes are yet not fully implemented and things change all the time. I personally like it because it means I can have a very positive impact. It is really fun and interesting, but it is quite a steep learning curve so it takes a bit to get your head around the codebase. It is not the typical up-and-running in a month (or three). Personally, that is a pro for me because it is really interesting, but it can be a bit frustrating if you are looking for something easier. Even though it is really inclusive, we need to improve on diversity, but we are actively working on it a lot and I'm sure we'll get there! :)

Old products never die, and SREs are expected to know in detail every part of multiple platforms across multiple generations. Everything is hand crafted - load balancers, orchestration, filesystems which leads to regular issues; despite being 100% cloud based, no real use is made of cloud native tools. The SRE role is more like a pure Ops job, reacting to issues. There is no team unity, lots of silos, little management focus which leads to people unknowingly working on the same things or not having a clear work stream. Feedback up the chain is rarely welcome.