Great product, great team, poor work-life balance - Software Engineer Abnormal AI Employee Review

4.0
29 Aug 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Teammates were highly skilled and motivated, and cared about building a good product. - Product itself seems great (customers all love it, it's ahead of the competition) and company is likely to go very far - It's a great place to work if you're really into cybersecurity. But if you're primarily into the engineering infrastructure/ML and are not interesting in cybersecurity, this might not be the best place.

Cons

- Poor work life balance (Very noisy on-call rotation, often would have to have slack convos about work on the weekends/evenings) - Engineers spend a lot of time putting out fires, talking to customers, and other non-IC work. Often had to explain to a sales engineer/account executive what to explain to the customer. - Very corporate culture (might be a pro to some). Lots of buzzwords, meetings for meetings' sake, etc.

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Abnormal AI Response
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Hey there, While we're disappointed that you didn't have a good experience here, we appreciate the feedback. Our company culture is extremely customer-obsessed, and it can be challenging to strike the right balance. We’re sorry we didn’t get it right this time, and we’re committed to taking actionable steps to improve going forward.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Recommend
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Pros

While pay IS competitive there were a few employees that were well underpaid even at the level they were at. Pro's - are that they educate you to use AI, the overall people team is great.

Cons

There was a shift in leadership last Fall and there have been cultural changes and not great ones. People are promoted without having the right experience required for the job aka senior manager roles. It seems like everyone is not happy and wants to leave. It is just a matter of time until turnover happens. There has been too many promises broken, broken leadership communication which results in a lack of trust, some managers are now micromanaging and it comes across as they fear for their jobs. They want to IPO which is great but ousting the entire GTM leadership sales team and head of people around the same time raised eyebrows.

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