lots of perks, but engineering and leadership mediocre at best - Software Engineer X Employee Review

2.0
Apr 22, 2012
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Pros

Lots of food. They serve a ton of snacks and meal options. Great perks for a startup, they are competitive with Zynga and Facebook on this. Short work hours, everyone leaves at 4 pm on Fridays for Tea Time. Low expectations for team members. easy to get promoted to Tech Lead. If you are coming from Google you will feel like a genius. Extremely social company, very friendly leadership. High salaries and restricted stock.

Cons

Very frustrating to be a Software Engineer coming from an environment like Google. Unusually high turnover for a startup tech company, particularly among senior management and high performers. You never know when someone is about to leave -- and often you have no idea why. Very secretive. I have no idea how the company is doing in terms of finances. Most big news I read about in Tech Crunch. Engineering reputation is poor. It's getting better, but hiring is difficult.

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5.0
Jun 11, 2025
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Pros

great community for web engineers. lots of mentorship available sessions to knowledge share really helped with growth

Cons

lots of projects do not make it to production lots of hoops before projects have a chance to be developed or make it hopefully to production

4.0
Jun 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Good salary - High Ownership - Interesting Work - Get to learn more broadly of how things work at scale compared to other global social media companies - Equity Growth Overall I have gotten to take on really interesting work here and am alongside colleagues I respect and appreciate. Equity has appreciated significantly.

Cons

- Constant Layoffs/poor attrition rates - Understaffed - Lack of organization/communication from leadership

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