high quality people & great for career growth - Engineer Retool Employee Review

5.0
Mar 23, 2025
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Pros

- top notch recruiters with an intentional interview process - SF Office very nice, great food snacks & perks - insanely good customers that most startups dream of having - the founders are exceptional, leadership are passionate and inspiring - coworkers are highly motivated, intelligent, and super kind - the product is massive, very interesting to learn and contribute to - company rewards top contributors & employees with lots of agency - EPD and GTM collaborate well - healthy tension to support customers

Cons

- culture is very slack-driven, I wish we were more documentation-driven - some teams have a lot of ambiguity/thrash to navigate - some teams clearly not performing well and/or lack strong managers, which can be demotivating for teams that are performing well - the majority of managers are decent, some are bad. very few are truly great. no management training that I'm aware of - growth stalled for a bit, but seems be picking up a lot now

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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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