| I was asked to comment here. As you know, I did a data science internship at Impossible Foods in late 2016. I'm mostly jotting down my own experiences, along with some anonymized information from talking to others. |
2019-07-20 |
Linchuan Zhang |
Effective Altruism Forum |
Impossible Foods |
Linchuan Zhang |
Job experience |
Animal welfare |
Linchuan Zhang lists pros and cons of working at Impossible Foods. Pros listed: highly mission-driven, diversity, niceness, interesting problems, lots of opportunities to grow, benefits, reasonable work-life balance, component CEO. Cons: low pay, subpar conflict resolution, less technical mentorship, and incrementalist nature of the work. Neutrals: High prestige in the public eye relativeto size, environmentalism as a dominant worldview (i.e., deep ecology) |