Amazing team, well-positioned product, leadership in tune - Avis employé MLOps Engineer WhyLabs

- Autonomy: Small team with more projects than people by a good amount. Everyone is the owner of a project and everyone has a lot of freedom in implementation and design. - Mostly Senior Staff: Easy to get input and trust that projects that you're not involved in are going to turn out great. - Product Influence: I'm used to just implementing what PM/UX determine to be the best route, with maybe some minor last minute adjustments that don't significantly change the idea. It's refreshing to be able to actually be involved in the product design from the start here and it's pretty easy to do since we're targeting a technical user base. - Customer Interaction: Getting to talk to people that have real problems face to face (zoom to zoom..) is really fun. I'm used to all of my work being locked behind a firewall. Actually existing in the real world on Github, using tools that the rest of the world uses feels a lot better.

Mostly related to company size. At large companies (Amazon in my case) it's easy to find random talented people and meet them for a 1:1 to get advice. You're more limited at a startup to the few people that work there. You have to work harder to make those random connections. Mentoring junior SDEs at a large company is also fun (to me at least). Everyone here is fairly senior so there isn't much room for that at the moment, but as we grow I'm sure the need will arise.

Fast-paced, very nice coworkers, opportunity to work in cutting edge and exciting topics.

Being a small team, you often need to wear multiple hats and can have a lot on your plate at any given moment.