Leadership is hopelessly AI pilled. Platform is unsolvable Tech Debt. - Software Architect Stamped Employee Review

1.0
26 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Fully remote company - Paid on time - Engineering Team (prior to departure) was a great group of people.

Cons

- Drowning in tech debt. Engineering spent over a year after Tiny acquired Stamped trying to address issues in the existing architecture and realized the futility and instead began reimplementing parts from scratch to stabilize things. - Leadership threw away a complete rearchitecture (data + service) and rebuild of the product suite in it's late stages of development and laid off nearly all of engineering, losing technical knowledge and expertise of the existing system. - Destroyed a culturally strong and diverse engineering team with high skill and trust in each other. - Leadership badly communicated to the rest of the organization about the rebuild work that the engineering team were working on which created an adversarial relationship between engineering and support/sales groups. - Leadership is completely AI pilled for all decision making and planning. Chasing AI buzz words while having no technical aptitude to lead a tech company. People are in positions that they're wholly unqualified for and just regurgitate what their GPT of choice tells them to do day-to-day.

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5.0
12 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- A great team environment, managers are extremely helpful and supportive without being overbearing - Leadership truly cares and wants the best for the company, even when hard decisions have to be made

Cons

- There have been a lot of changes recently which leads to some confusion about the direction of things

1.0
4 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Fully remote company - Small company means it is easy to have visible impact

Cons

- New leadership came in, fired existing leadership and laid off 40% of the company, 80% of which was in the eng department. This was done without an understanding of the technical space and so now they're drowning in issues they didn't know existed. - Fixing fundamental problems was put off for years already and is now becoming an insurmountable issue. - Leadership is more focused on drinking the AI-is-everything kool-aid than fixing real problems for existing customers while not having the ability to add worthwhile new features to the existing dumpster fire of a code base. - When things hit the fan engineering (which somehow was viewed by the rest of the company as "in charge") got blamed for everything despite them fighting for years to be given the opportunity to fix critical legacy issues that severely impacted the ability to deliver new value.

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