Don't join as remote - Software Engineer Grow Therapy Employee Review

Remote life at Grow used to be fantastic, but became miserable in 2025 and beyond - and that seems to be intentional. Grow stopped hiring for most engineering teams remotely, preferring their hub cities - and started doing employee appreciation events, but only for those in the office. It's a real shame - at a company where I once felt extremely valued and appreciated, I became just a name on a screen to assign tasks to. Grow publicly advertises itself as having a great work-life balance, but will also cheerfully put you on so many back-to-back urgent, high-priority efforts that you never get to take advantage of many of its benefits. Finally, Grow has become incredibly obsessed with quantifying and measuring everything possible. Grow used to hire skilled, experienced, and talented folks, and then trust their judgment. But, in 2025, Grow seemingly switched overnight to being heavily ROI-driven, and refusing to allocate time or resources for anything that couldn't be easily quantified. Internal documentation? We don't know what it costs to not have it, so let's cut that from the project deliverables. Improving internal tools? We need numbers on how many hours it would save before doing it. Performance reviews became a box-checking math problem overnight, with a number of senior departures because of being of being blindsided with bad reviews. Internal discussions and prioritization shifted from a feeling of everyone being aligned and on the same team to a constant game of internal politics and twisting of metrics to push things through broken systems.