Abusive management. - Software Engineer Snap Employee Review

1.0
25 Apr 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Able to work at a fairly rapid pace, though this came at the cost of not writing tests and peer reviews consisted of people just scanning the code. Compensation is fair considering market.

Cons

Work/life balance: We are regularly reminded that we're expected to come back online to work after dinner. God help you if your Hipchat dot isn't green. Weekends and working into the morning are a regular thing. Culture: It's said that a company's true culture is defined by those they reward and promote, as opposed to what they tout. And it's evident that Snap values managers who bully and intimidate to motivate their team and robots that blindly follow. Feedback system: Snap has no concept of reviews for peers or for management, so they stay oblivious to problems (perhaps willingly). Code quality: Peer reviews generally consist of someone scanning the code, not running it. No tests are written. This results in bugs slipping through to production apps. Unfortunately these issues seem to come from the top down; they are rooted deeply in the culture of Snap. Leaving Snap was like finally leaving an abusive relationship.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Recommend
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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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