Software Engineer - Anonymous employee Snap Employee Review

1.0
Aug 22, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The location is on the Venice Beach. The rent is low compared with the companies in the Silicon Valley. There are a few good software engineers and good managers from the Valley.

Cons

Some groups of managers and directors are biased towards their hires from their previous companies. The toxic culture and the horrible vesting schedule make it a bad place to grow your career. The HR department. There is no mechanism to transfer to a different group if you are working for a bullying boss (which is not rare at Snap).

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Cons

- Leadership is incompetent. This company will die and when it does, it will be no one's fault other than Evan. - If you disagree with leadership and speak up, you will be punished. All SMC VPs hired each other from past companies. They are all corporate ladder climbers from Meta with no morals. - Being a leader at Snap means leading through fear and regularly throwing tantrums in conference rooms. - The ads business is a joke. No matter how many ex-[insert big tech name] engineers work on the product, you can't monetize an audience of 13 year olds or people who's sole use case for this app is inappropriate. - There is truly nothing redeeming about this business, B2C or B2B. It's all smoke and mirrors. I've never seen the population of monetizable users grow, it's only gone down since I've joined. To offset this we acquire the cheapest users possible to appease investors who see straight through this BS.

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