I have never even heard (let alone worked for) of a worse tech company - Senior Software Engineer Navan Employee Review

1.0
5 Nov 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Honestly? the only one is that there are lots of dogs. The pay is decent - on par (and a little bit lower) than other decent public Israeli companies. There are no raises, however, so that's the case only for the first year.

Cons

Let me begin with the fact that I personally don't know a single happy employee in the Israeli site. I'm not even joking. I've never seen such a churn rate. Its a known joke in the company - you don't know who is gonna disappear next. Interpersonal cons: * Absolute and complete toxic management. Choose any toxic aspect you want and its there! micromanagement, endless hours and no work life balance, arrogance, gaslighting and whatnot. * There's no celebrating success - other companies have weekly happy hours which are more fancy than this company's IPO celebration. * You can't really connect to anyone because they're always leaving. * The company announced they'll embrace yearly layoffs like they do in Amazon, so prepare for that! Technical cons: * The majority of the company's codebase is in a single enormous repository that's impossible to maintain or work with. * Security procedures cause developer productivity to be reduced to absolute zero. You can't do anything without endless approvals and engineers knowingly skip good practices to overcome this. * Lots of core functionality is written in an extremely fragile and low quality code. * Endless politics which you can't avoid, because you'll have to deal with unbearable developers with political power to do your job. * Teams scattered over the world make you work with other time zones. * The extreme churn causes sources of knowledge to leave, leaving you with piles of code to deal with yourself.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of opportunity for advancement, pay compensation, mentor opportunities, great work environment, diversity and equality.

Cons

notice of sick time usage for it to count as Excused Absence, the ability to trade shifts as all U.S. based workers work Monday thru Friday with the earliest shist starting at 8 am and the latest starting at 12 pm CST

5.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fast paced, plenty of room and opportunity to grow. Very good starting pay and ability to earn bonuses. Many remote work options. Strong culture and supportive leadership, with fun company events (like the Christmas party) that help people feel connected, even for the many remote employees.

Cons

The pre‑hire assessment is very strict and pass/fail. I’ve referred strong, experienced candidates who I know are good workers, but they did not pass the test and were not given the opportunity to move forward. It feels like the process may screen out some high‑potential talent who could otherwise thrive here.

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