Garbage - Software Engineer Miku Employee Review

1.0
Jul 16, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very intelligent engineers, had a lot of potential.

Cons

The company is now out of business, or at least that’s what they told the 40+ members of the company who were laid off last week. Interesting how they kept a select few employees, most likely to keep the total number of laid off below 50 (any more and they would have had to pay us a severance due to the WARN Act). They paid us no severance and kicked us all to the curb. If you need to close business, you do it when you can afford to pay off your staff. Miku does not care about families, which is funny given that it’s a baby monitor. Avoid at all costs.

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5.0
Jan 17, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of freedom to work on things you enjoy

Cons

Lack of investment in engineering team,

1.0
Jul 17, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The employees at miku were great !

Cons

We were in the weeds for months because of a product failure. Tens of thousands of mikus stopped powering on properly and we were left dealing with the unhappy customers. The best part - they waited WEEKS before making a statement to customers about this issue with their product failure. We are not dealing with just any product here, its a baby monitor people trust to watch their newborns. They were replaced at no cost but our workload multiplied exponentially. When things started to calm down, Johann sent an all hands meeting invite at 1 AM (super professional, right? Apparently this is the norm for him, sending emails between midnight and 4 AM). within a few minutes of the all hands meeting we were told everyone on this call was terminated effective immediately. I second what a previous review said - they did this intentionally to have to avoid the WARN act. We were left with no severance and if you are in a state that doesn't require PTO payout like me, then you are just SOL.

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