Good Culture, but poor direction and no innovation
Pros
Tails has lovely people to work with. Some great individual engineers that are very talented and great at sharing their knowledge and experience. Additionally, it is easy to get your own initiatives going, engineers are very open to ideas if they can be reasoned.
Cons
Unfortunately for tails, the talent just about stops once you leave the engineers department. C Level leadership is extremely poor and top heavy. At times there have been “managers” not managing anyone, in an attempt just to promote. As a result it’s left tails with huge debt technically that it’s having to pay back now. Leaderships absolute refusal to invest properly in engineers has resulted in a department that is going to be left middling due to low salaries (Tails.com sit about 25% behind the rest of the market), resulting in an inability to hire good senior talent. Tails.com could be an amazing technology pet company. They brand themselves as such. But it’s requires proper investment, that at the moment, isn’t there.
