Good product, growing pains - Staff Software Engineer Discord Employee Review

4.0
25 Sept 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Enthusiastic User Base - Lots of interesting technical challenges - Interesting tech to work with (Elixir, Rust, etc)

Cons

- Lots of product churn - Toxic Positivity - Middle management has high variability in quality. - Workloads are not fair, some teams are over staffed, some under staffed. Oncall and Interview duties are not fairly distributed.

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5.0
19 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

people are kind and empathetic. generally people dont take themselves too seriously here. the product is cool especially if youre into gaming.

Cons

been on the same team for 4 years and im starting to get a little bored

4.0
5 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

smart and passionate colleagues, generally good culture.

Cons

disconnect between leadership and ICs. at times can be disorganized and there are many inexperienced managers.

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