Challenging and meaningful work - Software Engineer Snap Employee Review

5.0
8 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Your work has measurable impact on app users and infrastructure cost. There’s enough work that everyone is challenged to be creative and work smarter. People are kind and cooperative and there’s little bureaucracy. People are independent, smart, and write high quality code.

Cons

Quarterly performance reviews are exhausting and don’t drive growth. They’re only used if you’re getting promoted or fired. There’s no time for personal development; if the training that is offered (e.g. LinkedIn Learning) doesn’t apply you’re out of luck and need to find the time outside of work.

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Cons

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2.0
17 May 2026
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Pros

- Great base comp - Unlimited PTO - Good food at offices

Cons

- Leadership is incompetent. This company will die and when it does, it will be no one's fault other than Evan. - If you disagree with leadership and speak up, you will be punished. All SMC VPs hired each other from past companies. They are all corporate ladder climbers from Meta with no morals. - Being a leader at Snap means leading through fear and regularly throwing tantrums in conference rooms. - The ads business is a joke. No matter how many ex-[insert big tech name] engineers work on the product, you can't monetize an audience of 13 year olds or people who's sole use case for this app is inappropriate. - There is truly nothing redeeming about this business, B2C or B2B. It's all smoke and mirrors. I've never seen the population of monetizable users grow, it's only gone down since I've joined. To offset this we acquire the cheapest users possible to appease investors who see straight through this BS.

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