New leadership is running amok with zero accountability - Anonymous employee FloQast Employee Review

1.0
Jul 8, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent benefits, some great people

Cons

Leadership has actively driven this company into the ground. Since the layoffs in 2024 (and countless silent layoffs since), engineering culture has been in freefall, and it keeps getting worse. Attrition is sky-high, and the CTO keeps stacking leadership with his own friends — people who know nothing about the job and default to threatening people’s jobs to compensate. The constant churn means institutional knowledge just walks out the door on a regular basis, leaving teams full of people who don’t actually understand the systems they’re responsible for. QA has been gutted to the point of being nearly nonexistent, so defects ship constantly and nobody catches them until customers do — made worse by a QA manager who’s notorious for threatening everyone’s job security while doing none of the actual work himself, spending his days on his phone instead. Deadlines materialize out of nowhere, driven entirely by leadership’s whims rather than any actual planning. Fire drills happen daily. Every one of the CTO’s initiatives has failed, and there’s zero accountability for any of it. The product org isn’t far behind. The heads of product and engineering apparently don’t speak to each other, which leaves everyone else scrambling to fill the gap and coordinate work that should’ve been aligned from the top. The SVP of Product is condescending to the point where it has caused attrition. Leadership keeps inserting itself further into product decisions despite having no real read on what users actually want — they’re clearly more interested in how things look than whether the product actually works.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Genuinely strong benefits. 12-week paternity leave is real and appreciated. The people I worked with directly were hardworking and talented. That's about where the positives end.

Cons

The CTO is systematically dismantling engineering, and senior leadership is either complicit or asleep. The work-life balance that once made this company a genuine differentiator is gone. Daily production incidents are now normalized — a direct consequence of gutting the QA team through a series of layoffs, forced exits, and outsourcing. The offshoring initiative has been a particular disaster for work-life balance. Engineers were told offshore teams would work around US schedules. That was not true. Expect pings on Saturday and Sunday. Expect late-night messages. The CTO himself will DM you on a Sunday for something that could have waited until Monday. The RTO situation is being handled with zero transparency. If you're within a two-hour radius of a California office, you're being quietly pressured to come in — but this has only been communicated to California employees. No formal announcement. No company-wide policy. Just quiet pressure. The CTO's hiring practices deserve scrutiny. A pattern of loyalty hires has brought chaos and stress into engineering. Whether these hires were rigorously vetted is a fair question. What's not in question is the impact: added instability, a culture of working nights and weekends, and an implicit expectation that everyone else does the same. Anonymous Q&As — once a meaningful feedback channel — were eliminated when the company removed anonymity. No one asks questions anymore. Funny how that works. The long-tenured, high-performing engineers who were FloQast have left in droves since the new CTO arrived. The institutional knowledge is gone. The culture is gone. The company I joined no longer exists.

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