Feeling of an early stage chaotic startup environment
Pros
Financially backed-up by the corporation famous for global distribution of chemicals. Not clear expectations makes people who are not highest performers to not feel the pressure of expectations on performance level. There is a lot of nice & modest people working for Plantix in Berlin office (developers, agronomists, designers). Plantix is not hesitant to pay competitive compensation to people with expertise to help them clean the chaos.
Cons
People with expertise might struggle with lack of expectations, processes, goals, workflows. Collaboration can be difficult since decisions are always made top down. Better not expect your idea will be considered. Office in India struggles with even bigger lack of working processes and can't be very difficult to bridge the gap between India & Berlin office in terms of collaborations. Extremely noticeable lack of management expertise. Also, to have an app free for farmers, they are compensating with earning by selling toxic products. I don't believe having a free app is more important then selling pesticides and damaging the environment and soil forever.