Toxic culture with incompetent leadership - Software Engineer SoundCloud Employee Review

1.0
28 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice coworkers. Cool office. Work/life balance is ok.

Cons

Constant executive leadership changes. The most recent ones from 2021 and 2022 are completely incompetent, don't understand the community and care very little about the company and creators. They fuel an extremely toxic environment where they throw others under the bus and take zero accountability. C-level are all "talkers with charisma and charm" but they have zero vision. The product leaders take credit for the strategic and visionary work that was done by amazing teams back in 2021, way before they even joined. They all bring in their friends and write big checks for themselves while giving almost no opportunity to others for growth and career advancement. Constant cultural and operational war between different offices and locations. No clear and open communication from teams which makes collaboration difficult. C-level knows but don't do anything about it and creates an even more divisive culture.

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5.0
21 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

great team and great experience

Cons

none (is contract work with no guarantee to work full time)

3.0
26 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The culture is great; everyone who works there truly cares about keeping the product alive. The people who work here are great people overall too

Cons

Resources are really limited, there's often a lot of organization change. strategy changes really quickly without structure

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