An exciting job, marred by some organizational deficiencies - Story Editor Snap Employee Review

3.0
10 Nov 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I worked as a story editor on the content team, curating submitted snaps for their Live Stories. There are really good benefits and perks — you don't have to pay into healthcare, the snacks are pretty sweet, there are occasional activities like free group workout classes. You feel like you're working at one of the most exciting companies in the world. You can have a pretty big say in projects even without a ton of past work experience; Snapchat generally values the input and creativity of its employees, and wants be cooler and more innovative than anywhere else and that led to some really fruitful creative work. The pay is really good.

Cons

Horrific and irregular hours, far worse than initially advertised in the job description. It was not uncommon to work on both overnight and daytime shifts in the same week, which was nuts and totally destabilized any ability to have a social life outside of work. That's something that not might be visible from the outside, but attention toward employee wellness in this respect was minimal. There's a lack of diversity in the company overall — the content team at one point was definitely one of the more diverse teams (racially + gender-wise) but leadership and management is vastly white and male, which led to interpersonal issues and some tone-deafness in regard to content decisions. A relatively flat organizational structure meant it was difficult to get promoted or see the potential for a longer-term career ladder.

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Pros

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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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