My team and our manager. If you keep your purview as small as possible, things can be tolerable.

There are incredibly gifted and talented individual contributors at Pendo. If you're lucky enough to have a caring and good manager, you can do a lot of cool and creative work.

There are some Pendo sycophants for sure - because there are few 'cool' tech companies HQ'd in Raleigh, there are people who think that Pendo can do no wrong, which blinds them to the harsh realities that some of us face every day.

Taking action instead of giving lip service to issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity. I've been at Pendo for over a year, and for a full year they've been talking about how diversity is important, etc, but if you look at our stats - we've actually gotten whiter in 2020.

Be respectful of people's time. Job seekers may not have weeks and months to dedicate to interviewing. There's little flexibility for people who can't take full weekdays off to interview for 3-4 hours. As long as the CEO has the final say in a candidate, we're going to get whiter and more male.

I took a pay cut (as many Pendozers do) to come to Pendo with the promise that there would be room to grow. But we have no job scorecards, no paths for professional development, and raises outside of promotions can only happen once a year. There is no cost of living raise guaranteed, either.