Decagon
Small (~210)
Linear
Small (~80)
Best For
Decagon
Best for: Builders who want to ship AI customer support agents directly to F500 customers with technical founders deeply involved
Linear
Best for: Craftspeople who value deep work, async communication, and minimal meetings
Ratings
DecagonLinear
3.9
4.6
Overall
3.7
4.4
Work-Life Balance
3.8
4.8
Culture & Values
3.2
4.3
Comp & Benefits
3.7
4.5
Senior Mgmt
3.7
4.0
Career Opps
👍 75% Recommend
👤 85% CEO Approval (Jesse Zhang)
👍 95% Recommend
👤 95% CEO Approval (Karri Saarinen)
Culture Values
Decagon only
🚀 Ship Fast & Iterate💎 Strong Comp & Equity
Linear only
🎧 Deep Work / Low Meetings🌐 Remote-Friendly📡 Async-First⚖️ Work-Life Balance
Shared
⚙️ Engineering-Driven🎯 Direct Product Impact
Pros & Cons
Decagon
- Strong engineering-driven culture with technical founders still deeply involved
- Ship meaningful AI features to enterprise customers every week
- Intense workload and high expectations — not a typical 40-hour week
- SF-centric; most roles expect in-office presence
Linear
- Obsessive product craft — building the best-in-class PM tool teams genuinely love
- Deep work culture with no standups and minimal meetings — actually practiced
- Very small team = limited roles available at any given time
- High hiring bar means slow growth — patience required
Bottom Line
Decagon
Choose Decagon if you want intense builder energy at a $4.5B Series D AI agents startup with real enterprise revenue — but expect SF office-centric culture and cash comp that trails top AI labs.
Linear
Choose Linear if you want obsessive product craft with genuine work-life balance — but the team is tiny and hiring bar is extreme.
Open Roles
Decagon — 95 jobs
💼 Sales / GTM
32
💻 Engineering
25
📋 Product
7
🧠 ML / AI
6
⚙️ Operations
3
⚖️ Legal
2
📣 Marketing
2
📊 Data
1
🎨 Design
1
👤 HR / People
1
Linear — 19 jobs
💼 Sales / GTM
8
💻 Engineering
5
🎨 Design
3
📋 Product
2
⚖️ Legal
1
Summary
Decagon scores 3.9/5.0 on Glassdoor with a 3.7 work-life balance rating. Linear scores 4.6/5.0 overall with a 4.4 WLB. That’s a 0.7-point gap on overall satisfaction.
Both companies share these culture values: Engineering-Driven, Direct Product Impact. Decagon also emphasizes Ship Fast & Iterate, Strong Comp & Equity. Linear also emphasizes Deep Work / Low Meetings, Remote-Friendly, Async-First, Work-Life Balance.
On the hiring front, Decagon has 95 open roles and Linear has 19 open roles.