No appreciation of good work, no matter how much you work. Backstabbing and grumpy employees who always try to criticize if you fail without supporting you.
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5.0
22 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Current employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Strong engineering culture, competitive pay, great learning opportunities, and excellent internal mobility across teams.
Cons
Work-life balance can be tough, on-call rotations are demanding, and the pace is fast with high expectations.
Ambitious projects if you're in the right team.
Typically great team-mates. Don't believe the memes, the ppl are not back stabbing jerks but are overall genuinely nice.
Not constrained by budgets when building cool things.
Tools while sometimes clunky are powerful.
Cons
Schizophrenic lack of focus, entire teams get split, merged and upended multiple times a quarter.
Some product managers are disconnected from reality. It didn't use to be the case, the PM-Ts were previously top notch.
You're pushed to vibe code everything.
Established products with loyal customers are getting neglected.
Newer VP level leaders don't seem to know what they are doing.
Veteran OG VP level leaders are either leaving in droves or seem stressed or checked out.