High turnover - Software Engineer Retool Employee Review

1.0
Feb 19, 2026
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Pros

Even though the product is now pre-AI and needs to be completely rebuilt to be AI native, the concept of the product is interesting.

Cons

The founders hire low quality c-suite people. Some recent turnover: - Over the past year, many key GTM people have left, including: The Head of Support, the CRO (now at Replit), the Head of Sales, numerous RVPs, Head of Sales Enablement, Head of Rev Ops, and many of the top salespeople. - Since the new head of product joined in H2 of last year, most of the product managers decided to leave - Data/Resources eng team is now hiring for it's 4th eng manager in the last 12 to 18 months - Workflows team is on it's 3rd eng manager in the last 12 to 18 months - Engineering leader for applications left - Engineering leader for the app manager left - Engineering leader for Runtime left - Head of Product Design left around 18ish months ago - Head of Engineering was just let go - Person on the product data team left CTO and CEO are emotional and do "founder mode" in an ineffective way.

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5.0
Jun 23, 2026
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Pros

Fast pace, with plenty of opportunity to work with modern tooling, supportive culture, and solid engineers

Cons

Retool’s in the middle of a transformation into the world of AI-driven app building and it’s caused its fair share of attrition. But, at least there’s strong buy-in across the company at this point

5.0
Jun 12, 2026
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Pros

It’s hard to find a company that seems to genuinely care about their employees. Leadership and frontline listens if you explain context and present solutions to challenges. Sales org is strong. Solid partner strategy. Product teams leaned in and listening. Flexible and supportive work life balance. And a really interesting and exciting direction in term of product market fit. Good benefits.

Cons

Calendars get busy fast during the day. Lots of competing priorities because we’re trying to compete with an ever changing market.

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