Awful Management Skills - Senior Software Engineer Intenseye Employee Review

1.0
Nov 22, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

There are "still" great engineers to work with.

Cons

Constant instability and zero long-term vision The company changes direction with the flip of a finger. One day the entire marketing team was suddenly disbanded, A bit later heads of Sales, Marketing, and another department all “left” for unspecified reasons. About a month later, 8 out of 10 engineers were let go in a single day, regardless of performance. The team leads, senior/junior engineers without and consultant and without knowledge of Engineering Managers. There is no real planning, and the roadmap shifts constantly. Priorities change overnight, and engineers regularly receive unexpected, ad-hoc tasks directly from the CEO. Overall, the environment feels chaotic, reactive, and entirely unpredictable. we got 30 days PTO, amazing paternity (12 weeks) & maternity leaves, a lot of great benetifs at the beginning. They are all cut off now.

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Intenseye Response
4mo
Thank you for sharing your feedback. I appreciate your recognition of the talented teammates and engineers at Intenseye, and I’m sorry to hear that your experience felt unstable. Building a transparent, sustainable workplace is an ongoing focus as we grow, and we take this feedback seriously. We welcome continued input as we work to improve.

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5.0
Feb 4, 2026
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Pros

The people I've encountered at Intenseye truly want the best for each individual, and being apart of a startup means you are constantly collaborating cross-departmentally and getting a chance to know everyone you work with. There is a great work-life balance, and emphasis on producing quality work while also acknowledging life outside the corporation.

Cons

Because it's a startup, things can change quickly and often. If you are someone who is unable to adapt to changing scenarios easily, this (or any startup) would not be for you.

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Intenseye Response
3mo
Thanks for the feedback! We definitely don’t shy away from change around here, and I’m really glad you also felt supported by the team and able to maintain balance. Thanks for all you do. - People team
1.0
May 18, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits; ICs are smart, dedicated, and support one another

Cons

Unfortunately this goes far beyond normal startup chaos. The entire company operates around the whims of one person, and is constantly "reinventing itself" with an obsessive focus on unrealistic speed at the expense of ethics, stability, and product quality. ALL senior leadership (Sales, CS, HR, Product, Ops) have left within the last 6 months. Leadership claims that the departed leaders left because they couldn't handle the startup pace, but in reality no one has real decision authority besides the CEO. Company regularly commits new products & features to customers without consulting internal teams, and as a results always overpromise and underdeliver. The website is full of made-up capabilities that are far from existence. Company and product direction changes on a weekly basis, and exhausted engineers and front-line teams are scrambling to hold pieces together and sometimes are told to just make up lies to customers to keep them hanging a bit longer. Half of the engineering team was also laid off without informing even the engineering managers, because "AI will code faster", which is just one of the many restructuring that happened in the past several months. Teams and managers are moved around without justifications. Even promotion seems arbitrary and often used as tactics. At this point, there are effectively no qualified leaders left. The CEO and CTO are vibe coding and shipping AI slops directly to customers. Look elsewhere, and save yourself from career trauma.

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Intenseye Response
2d
Thank you for the detailed feedback. We know rapid growth comes with difficult tradeoffs, and we're sorry your experience here didn't reflect the environment we want to build. Stability, transparency, and clear direction matter to us, and we're continuing to invest in all three. We'd welcome the chance to hear more directly if you're open to it. We appreciate your contributions and wish you well. Sr. Director of People
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