Snap Reviews

Cons

1. No parking options for satellite offices
2. Does not allow you to work remotely 100% of the time

Cons

I have yet to take time off and not work most of the time. The constant chaos is very stressful. The company leaders talk about trying to turn a profit, but their actions don't say the same thing. They just spend $$$$$$ on the oddest things.

Cons

- Absolutely no growth potential. They don’t care about investing in their employees.
- “Council”, conducted mainly by white employees, is cultural appropriation and a mockery of native cultures.
- Sexual harassment is tolerated (and sometimes encouraged). If you’re a woman or LGBT, you will be harassed. If you are a sexual harasser, you will be promoted.
- Management is incompetent and behaves like children.
- Business decisions are irrational and delusional and often completely incomprehensible.
- Management lies to your face.
- HR will generally just ignore you.
- Management will manipulate you to suit their purposes and throw you under the bus.
- Internal politics is toxic (again, management consists of immature children).
- Anonymous surveys aren’t anonymous and they will retaliate against you.

Cons

Recent layoffs sting and people are still upset, as you can see on glassdoor
External competition narrative in the press gets really old and annoying
Lot of junior engineers who feel "trapped" at Snap, especially in LA, is a downer

Cons

-Absolutely toxic culture...constant fear of layoffs, Evan (CEO) suddenly pulling plug on a project
-Soulless and heartless management
-Company is willing to spend tens of millions a year on events, parties, millions of dollars of security for Evan, private jets for execs, Evan takes the biggest payout in the history of the corporate world...but then we trim certain snacks because they’re slightly too expensive and layoff hundreds of employees (many of which could’ve found a home on a different team) in a cost cutting exercise
-We’re absolutely losing the war against our competitors and it was tough to watch it happen
-Can’t trust anyone

Cons

- the amount of backstabbing here is crazy. PMs and engineering leads sniping at each other, etc.
- executives are totally lost. Only 2 of them have leadership experience elsewhere.
- everyone claims that Evan or Bobby is championing their personal pet projects/agendas
- secrecy secrecy secrecy
- everyone else outside of engineering not so competitive pay
- HR is a joke and they still don't know how to manage performance outside of hiring expensive consultants to tell them what to do
- layoffs are shrouded in secrecy even from managers
- terrible backloaded vesting for those pre-Jan 15 2018

Cons

Everything went bad once we went public. Management is out for themselves, nepotism, backbiting, scapegoating, irresponsibility - all apart of the culture. Toxic. Don’t recommend coming here at all.

Management SUCKS and will NOT fight for the direct reports. Every man for themselves. Period.

Cons

Stress
difficulty
programming late can be hard

It's a very good company but can be stressful and difficult.

Cons

- Upper Management are not transparent
- Perks are getting worse and worse every year
- Teams compete with each other instead of working together
- Team members' feedback don't seem to be addressed
- There's really no culture. Most people are here for the paycheck.

Cons

Was difficult when company was growing.