It can always get worse - Avis employé Software Engineer Databook

1,0
9 mai 2025
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

WLB! You can keep slacking forever as long as you keep being a YES-man and don't ask for a raise.

Inconvénients

- Your value as an engineer isn’t about the quality of your work—it's purely about how much you cost the company. - Constant layoffs and role eliminations happen nearly every quarter, creating ongoing instability. - The workplace is highly hierarchical; your title determines whether or not your ideas are taken seriously. - Short-term patch fixes dominate over real engineering solutions. Proposing long-term strategies to tackle tech debt gets you labeled negatively, even if the quick fixes ultimately take more time and resources. - All the previous negative reviews you've read here are accurate—any glowing 5-star reviews are likely planted by the People Ops team to artificially boost the company’s rating. They've even paid Glassdoor directly to remove critical reviews.

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5,0
6 juil. 2026
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Perspective commerciale

Avantages

Great people, lot's of autonomy in my role.

Inconvénients

fully remote so if you like "in office" it may not be for you.

1,0
3 mai 2025
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

- The coworkers at your level are fantastic; there's some great talent working here - Lots of insight into the reality of hype behind AI and generative AI - Relatively high pay for the market

Inconvénients

There is no plan. This place is an utter dumpster fire. You will work on nothing that actually bolsters your resume, and will instead spend all your time catering to the CEO. I have never seen a company have so many meetings and get so little done as a result of them. More time is spent on endless iterations of powerpoint decks than on actually building the product. Roadmap? What roadmap? It's entirely the CEO's whimsy. What the product can actually do and what's being pitched are worlds away. You can't bring that up, though - as another review pointed out, you'll simply be told "you don't get it", they'll explain it to you all over again, and you'll have to sit there nodding, bewildered, and questioning the life choices that led you here. Work life balance is an utter joke. The expectation is for all staff to work overtime, every day, including weekends and holidays. Setting boundaries around not working late, early, or more than 50 hours in a given week was frowned upon. People who worked until 3 am for a single one-hour presentation to a customer were lauded as exemplary, but that level of sacrifice resulted in little more than the CEO's approval. No bonus, no raise, just the expectation to do it again. If you have a sense of self worth, want to grow your career, or just not be miserable at work - steer clear.

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