Engineering team lacking direction and leadership - Senior Software Engineer Snapdocs Employee Review

3.0
Sep 22, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

* pleasant co-workers * good senior leadership * strong growth potential

Cons

Eng specific * problems are sometimes left to fester * lack of leadership There was a 6-12 month period where 70%-80% of engineers quit or were fired. They brought in a new VP of Engineering after that time some hopefully things have improved since then.

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Snapdocs Response
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts. As I’m sure you’ll recall, Be Empathetic is our northstar operating principle and as such we value all feedback, both positive and negative as it helps us continually improve. We have grown from ~105 to 350+ in 12 months, including taking the Engineering org from ~30 to 100. This pace of growth is not optimal for everyone, and we have lost a handful of folks, such as yourself, because of this. This is a natural part of any scaling startup’s journey. There has never, however, been any period of time where “70-80%” of engineers have turned over (for any reason). Not within a 6-12, 18, or even 24 month, period. This is empirically simply not true. In fact, 7-8% is far closer to reality. We’re constantly working to improve performance and strengthen our culture and all feedback helps us on that journey. If you have more to add, I’d love to hear from you at greg @snapdocs.com.

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