Fantastic place to grow your career - Senior Software Engineer FloQast Employee Review

5.0
19 Nov 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Exceptionally supportive team culture – everyone I’ve worked with has been approachable, collaborative, and genuinely invested in helping new hires succeed. Smooth and thoughtful onboarding process – the training materials and support from mentors made it easy to ramp up quickly. Great leadership communication – managers are transparent, encourage feedback, and make sure you always know what’s expected. Strong focus on employee development – plenty of opportunities to learn, ask questions, and grow into your role. Healthy work-life balance – deadlines are respected, and the team values productivity without burnout. Impactful work – you can clearly see how your contributions support the company’s mission and customers. Positive and energizing work environment – people are friendly, motivated, and take pride in doing things the right way. Modern tools and workflows that make day-to-day responsibilities more efficient and organized.

Cons

There’s so much to learn because the team is always improving, but it ends up being a great way to grow quickly. Everyone is very motivated, so it can make you want to keep up — a “good pressure,” but still something to adjust to. Processes are mostly smooth, with just a few areas that could become even more efficient as the company continues to scale. Lots of support available, but you sometimes need to ask for it proactively because everyone is busy doing great work. The bar is high, which is inspiring, though it means you’re always encouraged to bring your best.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Genuinely strong benefits. 12-week paternity leave is real and appreciated. The people I worked with directly were hardworking and talented. That's about where the positives end.

Cons

The CTO is systematically dismantling engineering, and senior leadership is either complicit or asleep. The work-life balance that once made this company a genuine differentiator is gone. Daily production incidents are now normalized — a direct consequence of gutting the QA team through a series of layoffs, forced exits, and outsourcing. The offshoring initiative has been a particular disaster for work-life balance. Engineers were told offshore teams would work around US schedules. That was not true. Expect pings on Saturday and Sunday. Expect late-night messages. The CTO himself will DM you on a Sunday for something that could have waited until Monday. The RTO situation is being handled with zero transparency. If you're within a two-hour radius of a California office, you're being quietly pressured to come in — but this has only been communicated to California employees. No formal announcement. No company-wide policy. Just quiet pressure. The CTO's hiring practices deserve scrutiny. A pattern of loyalty hires has brought chaos and stress into engineering. Whether these hires were rigorously vetted is a fair question. What's not in question is the impact: added instability, a culture of working nights and weekends, and an implicit expectation that everyone else does the same. Anonymous Q&As — once a meaningful feedback channel — were eliminated when the company removed anonymity. No one asks questions anymore. Funny how that works. The long-tenured, high-performing engineers who were FloQast have left in droves since the new CTO arrived. The institutional knowledge is gone. The culture is gone. The company I joined no longer exists.

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