Used to be good - Lead Software Engineer Invitae Employee Review

2.0
23 Oct 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Autonomy. You had the ability to build whatever you needed to get the job done.

Cons

Feature Factory and seagull management. Business wanted a constant stream of new features with little regard for long term maintenance leading single engineers having to maintain multiple massive crumbling systems. They hired managers that came in, squawked about how everything is trash compared to their last faang job, made an even bigger mess with over complicated systems, then bounced for a bigger paycheck somewhere else leaving an unmaintainable mess behind.

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5.0
12 Feb 2026
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Pros

Collaborative culture Transparent, radically honest communication Innovative ethos Brilliant team members Flat org structure Distributed workforce

Cons

Flat org structure Distributed workforce

3.0
2 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Encourages ownership and collaboration across teams / jurisdictions.

Cons

Growth at any cost without the infrastructure to support it led to burnout in a lot of places.

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