Politics, politics, politics - Anonymous employee AppLovin Employee Review

1.0
7 Jan 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salaries are on the upper side of the industry Perks are awesome Product is relatively good

Cons

This glassdoor rating is a lie! As people mentioned before: Either you are in the club or you are not. The profile that they hire is pretty much the same all across the company. IPO is coming soon. But first, the company should pay 2 billion dollars in debt financing. If you are joining with hopes of a good $$ exit... good luck. They hire people and teach them to embrace the toxic culture of the company as if it is something normal. It is not. Look around, especially onto competitors. Vengeful culture. I've seen this and even the HR person was a bit troubled about implementing it.

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