Pivot to oblivion - Software Engineer Snorkel AI Employee Review

- Immature executive leadership, letting their Stanford PhD reputations carry them - Despite what they say, they don't care about their people. This is obvious when someone leaves, voluntarily or not. Outside their immediate pod, they tend to just disappear. Only longer tenured employees get a mention, typically in a random Slack message. Otherwise, you find out by suddenly finding them deactivated on Slack without any explanation - Poor strategy and long term decision making. Very slow to react to the rapid swing towards gen-AI, and then it was way too little too late. - Core business, which seemed very promising, dried up - Dramatic pivot to new data as a service direction is not what anyone signed up for, and they're essentially working 9-9-6. Working so intensely, they're doing nothing but creating engineering tech-debt, and never cleaning any of it up. - Super competitive market for new direction, and they're extremely far behind already. Very unlikely they can catch up - Work is uninteresting, just grinding - especially post-pivot - Aimless design efforts