Nice community, Brutal Management - Software Developer Snap Employee Review

3.0
Sep 29, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Fellow employees are nice, it's an international company so it's always cool to meet/visit people from other countries - Benefits are cool, like catering and other benefits - You kind of get to see what it's like to work in a big company

Cons

- The company is not doing that good, so any "new projects" are doomed to be suddenly dropped in favor of the core business - You have to accept that management tries to portray a good image of themselves with nice words, but they will lay entire offices off without even blinking. - Any stock-based compensation is essentially useless as the stock price is low, and stocks vest after at least 2 years, so you are "rewarded" but then you lose them if and when you are laid off.

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Pros

Great working culture and mission of work

Cons

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2.0
May 17, 2026
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Pros

- Great base comp - Unlimited PTO - Good food at offices

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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