We’re a bigger company (publicly traded outside the US, thousands of employees), but we’re a manufacturer, so most of the headcount is blue collar. Our department is medium sized (about 30 full time, plus about 20 from outside firms), so it feels like a smallish company with large company benefits.
It’s a nice niche. It doesn’t pay as well as the big tech companies, but I almost never work more than 8 hours and frequently less. It’s pretty chill and has great work/life balance. I work in office 2x/week and remote the other two days.
It’s a pretty decent gig, but definitely seemed sketchy when I joined (I was like the fifth FT employee, so most of the headcount was in another hemisphere). No regrets, but I was watching my paychecks pretty closely for a month or so to make sure they didn’t pull anything weird (to be fair, I was hired full remote during COVID).