Stay Away - Senior Software Engineer FLEXE Employee Review

Wonderful People, leadership, flexibility, and culture.

It's a tough market right now, which has resulted in layoffs.

A great learning experience of how poor management impacts morale. Paychecks always showed up on time.

Relentless layoffs created a culture of fear and distraction. Three rounds occurred during my tenure, with leadership openly signaling yet another upcoming round in January. Planning, morale, and trust were nonexistent. But micromanagement was ever-present. Leadership constantly shifted priorities, making it impossible to understand what actually mattered. One quarter’s “top initiative” would quietly disappear the next. (Yes, this is directed towards the SVP of “strategy” and the CEO.) Remember that poorly produced video on the website about the benefits of remote work? The company abruptly walked back its remote-first stance, moving to hybrid without soliciting employee input or acknowledging the impact on work-life balance, despite remote work being a major reason many people joined. Below-market compensation across roles, paired with a shockingly weak 401k match, sends a clear message about how little employee retention is valued. Communication from leadership often felt reactive, opaque, and overly optimistic, even as layoffs and cost-cutting told a very different story. Quick... let's try to save a penny every chance we get, but let's also open a brand new office, pay for leases on not one but TWO office spaces, and fly the staff to Seattle in the fall for "collaboration."