Best of both worlds - small company working on big projects - Full Stack Software Engineer Codazen Employee Review

5.0
Jul 20, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Small company making big impact for big companies (Facebook, Oculus, and more) - Extremely collaborative & flat atmosphere, no politics/blame games - Competitive pay and benefits - Great company culture - Great work/life balance - "crunch times" with extra hours are very rare. Management respects employees' personal lives. - Laguna Hills location is amazing, wide variety of nice places to live nearby - Environment and management that facilitates and encourages learning - Flexible work schedule - occasional remote work while traveling or working on a weekend to make up for missing a weekday - CEO is an open-minded engineer and clearly values all employees' talents and opinions - Very good job security - Codazen continuously receives more offers for work than they can take on - Lots of room for moving between different projects and programming languages - Opportunity to do technical interviews of new candidates

Cons

- Could have more snack options but this has been improving - Career path for a better title is unclear but management is aware and this too has been improving

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 23, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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