Fake, Political and Orwellian - Dev Manager Slack Employee Review

1.0
20 Dec 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Great benefits - Good name recognition - Fair compensation

Cons

- Sudden, unexpected early success led to inflated egos and poor governance among company leaders - As a result, the company's culture is a strange mix of entitlement, self-aggrandizement, with some deep-seeded insecurity - From the C level on down, the company says the right things -- from strategy to cultural engineering -- it is about "vision", "diversity" and so on - When it comes down to practice, such as hiring, review or planning, the decisions are often arbitrary, and clownishly contradicting - Yet the enforcement of those decisions is nothing short of authoritarian. PeopleOps operates like a secret police force: some lunch time bantering about the company's direction would be reported, recorded, then came back to haunt you during reviews

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5.0
16 Mar 2026
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Pros

- high per-hour pay - 10k housing stipend

Cons

- no overtime pay (or you can, but most don't log it since hourly pay is already so high)

4.0
11 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, no micro management, good work/life balance

Cons

Limited opportunities, lots of hiring freezes, limited transparency in leadership decisions

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