Thought it would be a dream job, but the exec team quickly changed that - Anonymous employee Grindr Employee Review

2.0
25 Oct 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Getting to work with incredible people - Decent comp - Fun app to work on

Cons

- Lacking autonomy and trust - CEO wants a say in every minor detail and no one is willing to push back - Union busting tactics were very disappointing - Heavy focus on revenue and profitability is demoralizing - No transparency - No job security with regular rounds of layoffs/firing

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5.0
9 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Team culture, talent density, tech stack, brand recognition, benefits, offices

Cons

Tuesdays and Thursdays in the office [con if you prefer WFH, I find it helpful]

1.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It pays very well and the benefits are best-in-class.

Cons

Leadership wants to sand every edge off a queer app until it's bland enough to sell to advertisers and reassure Wall Street. The strategy is to turn the thing into a "lifestyle platform," a "global gayborhood," a wholesome brand safe enough for a keynote slide... but the result is an enshittified, barely function app that's anything but the sharp, sex-positive, specifically queer product it was at its inception. The straightwashing is the part I can't get past. Several teams have become a creeping majority of straight people making creative and strategic decisions about an app they have never once opened. I don't know how you greenlight campaigns for a community you've never been part of, but they manage it, and it shows in every flat, focus-grouped piece of work that goes out the door. The audience can tell. The audience can always tell. It isn't malice, which is almost worse. It's indifference. The people steering the brand simply don't care about the people using it, and you cannot fake the thing that's missing. They just don't have taste.

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