Certain portions are great like work from home and meaningful work that helps students and teachers. Other portions less so, like unstructured meetings, people not understanding their roles, and a few poor managers that are micro-managers. Lack of focus on outputs and instead focus on inputs.

Solving problems in collaboration with others.

CEO communicates what is important - students vs shareholders.

Opportunities to be heard. People are largely honest.

Being able to solve problems and apply my knowledge.

Variety of backgrounds and points of view. Willing to work hard when problems arise.

Define "leadership team" in the future (Board of Dirs., VPs? etc.) CEO speaks truthfully and largely put the mission ahead of short term monetary gains.

CEO believes in mission. Have a strong sense of what needs to be done without being dictated how to get it done. Love that freedom.

Work from home policy. Allows us to work with people all over the country. Allows us the work-life balance denied at other places I have been in the past.

Higher salary. Being paid for the benefits not taken (IE, I save CA thousands by not using their health insurance - other companies would split that with me). Geography factors into salary goes again basic "equal work for equal pay" from civil rights movement. Even worse for non-US employees.

At least stay on par with inflation for raises. Difference in salary pay increase between "achieving at high standard" and "excelling" is .5%, that is not laughable but sad and not an incentive, at all. Compare those in engineering's roles to tech industry as a whole, not just Ed Tech.