Unfocused product direction and mediocre engineering team - Devops Engineer Alpaca Employee Review

3.0
Oct 29, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- remote work - interesting technologies - heart is in the heart of finance (stock market)

Cons

- over-engineering culture. The first thing the company did after raising a series B is build more microservices and it had the CTOs blessing. Now products ship 3x slower while operating costs are higher. - half-baked product ideas, the founders just want everyone to try out anything but nothing sticks. Now they have a ton of responsibility to fulfill on top of already suffering product direction. It’s gonna be a snowball effect - disgruntled european counterparts. They are not getting raises because the company financials are suffering so they go after people who live in a higher cost of living area than them, grow up. - can’t close deals when competing with other competitors.

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5.0
Jul 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

great company to work at, remote flexible

Cons

too much work and responsibilty

3.0
Jun 17, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Smart people, interesting product, ambitious goals

Cons

Disorganized, unclear process, hard to set long term goals

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