If you love AI, you'll love Perplexity - Data Science Perplexity AI Employee Review

5.0
8 July 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

● You get to work on some of the most bleeding edge applications possible. Every feature we ship, we notice users with their heads exploding at the amount of work they can automate that used to take days / hours to do. ● Co-workers are truly brilliant - we have some geniuses and smartest engineers, researchers, and designers. Learning from them and working next to them is an awesome experience. ● You work on application-level AI, which is the future of how AI will change the world. We try new UIs, interaction modes, changes to models. All of this, you sit front row of how user behaviors change.

Cons

● Work hard, play hard culture. Engineers are working late and founders themselves are always in office past midnight. Had a few people come from FAANG only to leave after 90 days, which makes sense given it's likely too much for them. ● Intense - when there's a big launch or product being build, it's all hands on deck. The timeline is always super tight and every team is running around trying to fix things that are breaking. We get 100s of requests each day for data to help inform decisions. ● Performance is everything - you can be a great person but if you don't deliver, the company doesn't really see you. It does push you to be your best, but definitely took some adjustment period.

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5.0
28 Dec 2025
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Pros

- Growth has been exponentially high every day for both company and personal. Your impact is extremely big as you gotta work on the most cutting edge AI innovations and the user base is pretty large.

Cons

- Your pressure is also high, due to the strong peers and high expectations.

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5.0
8 July 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A lot of others say this but honestly can't emphasize it enough - these are some of the smartest, most humble people I've worked with. Some lead entire GTM, data science, engineering teams, etc. to return to an IC role. They simply love to build. You rarely get to see that energy in tech companies nowadays. Many people here genuinely believe Perplexity is the future of search and are resilient when things get tough. I am quite excited to work next to them. The founders keep the bar high and fire fast when things aren't working; it used to bother me initially but realized these individuals are actually happier at other companies, which makes me realize we're doing the right thing.

Cons

The downside of working with great people is that they're truly obsessive eg don't do much except build. They're always thinking about the product, the research, users, etc. which means you don't feel like you get time to do other things. You definitely get your weekends off but sometimes expected to crank through weekends for a major product launch. However, seeing millions of people dive into the feature you built and praise it on Twitter, Reddit, etc. is super rewarding. I can definitely see culture shock at the pace of shipping.

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