Bad leadership - a huge disappointment - Software Engineer Flare Employee Review

1.0
21 Nov 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Nice offices Good cause Some employees are great

Cons

- Leadership is lacking, founders are disconnected from their employees - A lot of non-professional decisions are made (without real explanations to the employees) and nepotism is widely spread, especially among the higher ranks (C-Level & VPs). - CPO is an intimidating person who occasionally talks in an inappropriate way to employees. - CTO is micro-managing her employees, to a level that the whole department is not functioning in the last months and engineers start to look for other opportunities. - People are getting fired only because they are in the wrong side of the political map, or because they dared to ask for a raise or a change of position. Great and effective employees being made to leave or getting fired because of false reasons. - Stress in the organization is very high, mainly because of mistakes made by management and frequent change of priorities and employees pay the price by working after work hours if needed. - Salaries are OK but once you sign - you will never get a raise or more options.

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5.0
1 Dec 2025
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Pros

Amazing culture and great people!

Cons

Can be easy to get behind if you aren’t grinding every day

2.0
9 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Health benefits, vacation time, remote work

Cons

Upper management is clueless to the fact that we are over worked. They just don’t care. CEO only cares about cutting his costs to put more money in his pocket. The motto of the company should be “over promised and under delivered” we are constantly promised things and they never hold their word. If you want to feel undervalued work for flare. It’s no wonder everyone decent is putting their notice in.

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