Delusional CEO, terrible equity structure, and suck up PMs - Senior Software Engineer Bilt Rewards Employee Review

1.0
13 Dec 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You’ll have some stock upside if you can survive the absurd pace at which you’ll pump out features

Cons

- Worst office in a terrible location for commuters with zero sunlight and a horrible elevator. Only real soulless vampires can be happy 5 days a week in office - Disconnected and delusional CEO with a whip he loves to crack even on the best performers for not performing at his ideal pace, which is always unreasonably faster - Low quality product with little testing - You’ll work weekends whether you like it or not. - Equity structure was changed to 10/20/30/40 and there are people at the company that have 25/25/25/25 and you’ll work just as hard as they do but pay way more in taxes if things work out and have a lot more to lose at potential layoff - CEO has no idea how a design system works and designs a new screen every day that looks like a new app - Staff Engineers seem mis leveled and some seniors are way better yet lower level than the staff eng

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5.0
28 Feb 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-opportunity to work on an awesome consumer product -work with extremely talented and collaborative people -ability to quickly move up and take on more -beautiful new office

Cons

-demanding but that’s expected from a high-growth startup -priorities can shift frequently

2.0
11 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great health insurance and the office coffee situation was decent, which honestly is the absolute bare minimum but still one of the few tolerable things here.

Cons

- The processes here are completely nonexistent. - You will spend your first month desperately trying to figure out how anything actually works because nobody documented anything and every person gives a completely different version of the same procedure, which becomes infuriating fast. - There is no standard workflow for anything, so you constantly waste time reinventing everything or asking five different people the same question and getting five completely different answers. - Meetings happen just to repeat the same useless conversations from previous meetings while nothing actually improves. - Things constantly fall through because there is no real tracking system at all. It is just endless emails flying everywhere until something important disappears. - By the end, I was completely exhausted trying to compensate for the total lack of any real organizational structure.

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