No career growth - Quality Assurance Engineer Toast Inc Employee Review

2.0
9 Jan 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company is progressive and diverse. The company has better benefits than most others I've worked.

Cons

The QA org was dissolved about 10 or so months ago when they laid off 550 people. They are pushing to remove QA as a role altogether with a focus on AI and automation and have been moving that way for the last 2 quarters. They don't care about their employees opinions and have moved forward with a return to office mandate. I was explicitly told that QA had no career growth in the company. There is no career growth at this company for QAs, managerial or otherwise. The company also has a history of retailiating against dissenting opinions from that of the leadership. The leadership fears criticism and will often deflect and deny that there is any issues and make unreasonable demands and deadlines.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible hybrid work, great culture working for the company, benefits and pay is pretty good as well

Cons

Can feel hard to move within the company as opportunities don't open up often for specialist to move upwards

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Toast Inc Response
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We appreciate you sharing a candid review with us. We’re delighted that the culture and benefits are resonating with you. We'd recommend reaching out to your People Success Partner to discuss your feedback further.
2.0
26 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The benefits and health insurance are amazing and the company culture as a whole is very positive. It was a pleasure to work with almost everyone I met in my time there.

Cons

Lower management, especially for care teams, deeply lacks integrity. Retaliatory practices, lack of communication, and failure to adhere to their own policies are very common behavior depending on who your manager is. The inconsistencies across what is expected from leadership are profound and it is disappointing how much this can derail your career trajectory at Toast. It’s also very difficult to help customers at times, as Toast is notorious for launching new products at customers and providing little to no support to agents that are then expected to troubleshoot using sparse or nonexistent resources and absolutely no training. Cross-collaboration with teams that occasionally intersect is also very challenging, particularly Sales/Onboarding and Care. There were many instances where sales and onboarding specialists set customers up with false expectations of the product, which leaves care teams to deal with the aftermath.

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