Technical Support Engineer (L5)
Seems great, and the salary is amazing.
Roles that involve reactively assisting customers with highly technical problems or with using highly technical products. Technical assistance is usually offered via email, phone, or video conference.
Seems great, and the salary is amazing.
These companies do know that no one's forcing them to build their cultures 20,000 leagues under the sea, right? Come out of the water. It's nicer up here.
No salary transparency and some interesting culture signals put this in Tread Carefully.
It's our job as leadership to create an environment of respect for our customer support teams among our customers. If things are so bad that you have to specify "professional resilience" in your candidates, that's a failure of leadership and the company, not in potential candidates.
I understand that it's customary for there not to be salary transparency in international roles, but I refuse to excuse companies simply because they're not required to have it, *especially* when they claim to offer competitive salaries.
I'm on the fence about Drata's "rules" – on the one hand I appreciate the rules are highly visible and clear. But there are also more elements of toxic startup philosophy than I am personally comfortable with.
I was still mostly on board until I saw the salary. They want a discount engineer. LOL K!
I mean, I certainly dreamt of going to school for 4-6 years and earning a technical degree and THEN WORKING FOR ANOTHER 4+ YEARS to make $25 an hour for a company that won't even deign to give me a title that reflects the level of work I'm doing. WHERE DO I SIGN UP.
This company and job has the dubious honor of spawning not one, but TWO new BJB entries. I bet you can guess which ones.
Genuinely one of the most diverse companies I've seen so far. And the rare case where a company claims diversity as a value and is clearly backing that up with their hiring. Cool!
The role seems pretty straightforward, and the company's Carreers page is pretty standard corporate fare. The main thing putting this in Tread Carefully is the lack of salary transparency.
THIS IS NOT SUPPORT ENGINEER WORK. Is something in the water? Is Venus in retrograde? Am I in the Upside Down? WHAT IS HAPPENING.
If this is a global senior leadership position (as described in the JD), it really should be at the VP-level or higher. Otherwise, everything seems normal enough, although I'm not sure about the salary range – seems low for a position at this level that's also hybrid in New York.
Job description looks reasonable enough, but there's no salary transparency, so into Tread Carefully it goes.
This really should be a more senior title – Head of, at least. But the salary, responsibilities, and requirements of the position seem otherwise appropriate for the title of manager, and the Careers page looks good.
Seems great – the Careers page is straightforward and informative and so is the job description. They seem to have a clear idea of their mission and what they're looking for in this role and they avoid euphemisms for startup life that often spell trouble in companies like this.
The job description overall seems fine, but the pay is piddly for an onsite role in San Francisco, especially for a technical role. It's low enough, in fact, that I'm putting it in Tread Carefully.
"You want to be with the best" -- No. Throw me in the dumpster. Those trash pandas are my real family.
Job description is refreshingly free of "fast-paced, dynamic company" and "rockstar" language that's been so prevalent today. Salary's a little wide, but more than appropriate. This one might be a keeper!
The Must Haves section makes this essentially a highly-skilled senior communicator/engineer role, which makes the salary way too low for what they're asking for.
I really, really hate when the salary is good for leadership roles but poor for frontline roles. The salary is especially egregious considering that it's billed as a technical role, with fluency in Spanish or Portuguese as a nice-to-have. I literally booed when I read that.
Salary range is wide but high enough that I don't think anyone will really care.
They describe what they want instead of just plastering "critical-thinker" in a sentence and calling it a day! My crops are flourishing, my skin is clear, my bagels are perfectly toasted, tikkun olam everybody.
Uh. Buckle in, my friends, because this one is A RIDE.