Hard review to leave but honesty should be the best policy - Engineering Carbon Employee Review

2.0
14 Mar 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the most wonderful people I've ever met and still stay in touch with and hope to be friends with for a long time. Carbon was a breath of fresh air in culture and work-life balance. Really interesting technology.

Cons

Unfortunately, the fresh air couldn't last. It's hard to leave this review because I'm thankful for the opportunity and the technology has such great potential. However, that potential is marred by the lack of effective problem solving and teamwork. By the time I left, I felt like no one was looking out for each other anymore. The technical approach is applying bandaids, not creating real long term solutions. Favoritism is rampant. Leadership doesn't like you? Too bad, don't expect to be heard/respected/promoted. Want actual useful feedback? Too bad, no one cares and HR is too overloaded/out of touch to enforce real processes. The long term people either don't trust anyone else or only go to the same 5 people to solve all the company's problems, even when they just hired people with actual experience with the problem.

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5.0
18 June 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great Work Life Balance Great Company Culture

Cons

Company is not stable and layoffs happen here. Not a secure job.

2.0
5 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Back in the day, Carbon was an awesome place to work with great talent. They had recruited an amazing team, and built some really cool products.

Cons

There is no bright future ahead for Carbon. They are simply in way too small, way too competitive, no growth markets and have tried for years and invested hundreds of millions (closer to a billion) to find better markets and simply cannot. Its a sad story more than anything else, as overtime there has been decent leadership, but they should have made a massive pivot into a completely different business - they had 700 million+ in funding, enough to reinvent the business 5 times over. The equity realistically is valued at 0, because companies in this space get ultra low valuation multiples (~1-2), especially if revenue has been flat or down for years (used to work in venture capital). Do not waste your time here any longer, thinking there is any way this will change. They missed the opportunity to sell at the peak of the bubble. Now there is too long an operating history to make the case the future will be different.

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