Weak Engineering Culture & Limited Growth - Anonymous employee FalconX Employee Review

3.0
3 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. Competitive Salary with Amazon, Nutanix etc. 2. Holistic experience of working with a mature fintech product company.

Cons

1. Apart from a couple of managers across departments, no proper attention is given to individual career growth. There are extremely delayed promotions. No one acts on it unless the employee has brought it up multiple times. 2. No proper leadership training is given to new team leads/managers. The new TLs have no insight into conflict management and growth mindset. They tend to give orders and expect them to be followed without dissent. If any concerns are constantly raised, instead of finding a solution, they give out bad reviews with no proper communication. 3. There have been several cases of employee's quitting over the past 3 years with/without an offer due to toxic management. Either for hogging credit or setting unreal expectations. In most cases, the concerned managers face no consequences. 4. Everyone is severely overworked and burnt out. The culture promotes overworking and also gives awards for the same. If someone raises concern on it, they very clearly deem it to be the employee's incompetence for not being able to keep up. 5. The HR department is extremely unhelpful for exiting employees. They entertain no feedback for the management or the culture in the exist interview.

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Pros

Lots of ownership from day one. You get to work on real problems that matter, not busy work. Super smart teammates, and you learn fast just by being around them. If you want to grow technically and professionally, this is the place

Cons

Fast-paced, priorities shift sometimes. Not for people who want a slow, predictable environment. in-office culture but office is nice and good office perks (free lunch, unlimited snacks fruits etc and they take requests too)

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2.0
8 Jan 2026
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Pros

You get to work with some smart people in a fast moving industry

Cons

-There is favoritism based on race at this company, not two ways about it. -The company will be sold in the next two years. The CEO moved to Texas to avoid the taxes on the transaction. He says it's easier for him to get to the SF and NYC offices being in the middle of the country. That's not why CEO/founders move to Texas when all their employees are on one coast or the other. -Incredibly high amount of turnover. Many employees leave for better run companies in the space such at Anchorage, Galaxy, Coinbase, or Krakken.

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