Aura Engineering Department Employee Reviews
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
The leadership team is very good at what they do. Aura has employed strong and capable leaders to run each function.
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Good vision and direction to make the company successful
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Being in contact with employees and being open to questions/suggestions
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the leadership team keeps me informed on every important detail.
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What I like best about the leadership team is their ability to inspire and motivate everyone, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment while maintaining clear and effective communication.
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
More clear and consistent planning, more transparency around decision-making. Less corny AI fetishizing at all-hands meetings. And why pray tell are we now doing QUARTERLY performance reviews? If I have to go through this tedious process every quarter, I should also receive a raise every quarter.
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Clearer, more consistent direction. Distribute pay and equity more broadly, rather than simply enriching themselves.
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- Keep a direction/strategy longer than a quarter. Constant changes cause whiplash. - Hire and backfill again. If there's money to throw millions at Robert Downey Jr. and Red Sox sponsorships, there's money to hire people. We're all working too hard. - More transparency on decision-making
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
Remote work, unlimited PTO, good insurance
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Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
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unlimited PTO, health insurance, gifts
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Remote work and PTO when I need it combined with work flexibility.
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Believe I am being paid to the market.
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Love working remotely, love the unlimited PTO policy. However, pay is 20-30% less than equivalent positions elsewhere, and the cost of living has risen much faster than raises. Would also like more opportunities for equity.
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I think i get paid less than my peers based purely on geography
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I don't really understand how compensation works, and while it feels I have done more this year I have smaller increase than previous year
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Few people get more base salary based on when/by whom they are hired compared to others even though they work at same or even lower position and their salary compared to workload is unfair
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Per Glassdoor and this website, I am grossly underpaid compared to the average here and at other companies.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Coworkers are incredibly skilled and personable. We learn from each other (or at least I learn a lot from them), and feedback is always constructive and respectful
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Collaboration, willingness to help, growth mindset, flexible, problem-solvers
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The team balances fun and professionalism well, and lots of different personalities and cultural backgrounds are represented.
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Many smart and hard working people
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They are ready to help 24/7!
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
People are very responsive when reached out to and are always happy to help
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Willingness to adopt new ideas and collaborate with others
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The people I work with day-to-day.
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The team comradery is strong
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Inclusive, friendly and there're many learning meeting related to culture
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
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What did you like most about the interview process?
Things moved quickly and technical rounds were not tedious leetcode-esque questions or a time consuming take-home assessment
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Interview process was very fast
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Working remotely is a great benefit to me, as it enables me to be the most productive version of myself by saving time commuting, enabling "heads-down time" I might not have in an office, and allowing me to clear my head effectively when I'm stuck. Also, I love working on a product that I believe in
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The time my manager invests in me learning and developing. The willingness of other teams to collaborate and change behaviors.
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When the teams are able to be successful
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Working with great people, solving challenging problems
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What makes me most happy at work is the opportunity to collaborate with talented colleagues, tackle challenging projects, and see our collective efforts lead to meaningful results and positive impacts.
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
"Moving fast" does not have to mean moving without consistent purpose and intention. It also does not have to mean randomly laying people off for no reason just for the sake of a "re-org."
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Lack of resources in almost every sectors which stops us from making better plan for future
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Too little consistency, too many meetings, and too low a salary
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We're all working too hard, due to positions not being backfilled. We're constantly whiplashing business direction. The executive team is largely out of touch with what us as employees want, as well as what customers actually want.
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It's more of a me problem. Not sure Aura can help.
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What do you like best about your company?
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
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