Listen to the red flags - Senior Software Engineer Highnote Employee Review

1.0
31 May 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Office in SF provides free food, stocked kitchen.

Cons

Employees constantly kept under pressure leading to tech debt. Recruiters and leadership post fake reviews immediately after a negative review parroting the same "Rockstar team" bs. The office's Google reviews have reviews from employees who have never visited the office. Product is actually not going to pick up as much as people think. Currently it's a fraction of what marqeta offers and marqeta itself is not doing good. Inevitable cost cutting will take place. Almost guaranteed down round next.

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5.0
1 Aug 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Highnote's hiring process and was impressive because of their respectfulness and efficiency. From start to finish, communication was clear and courteous, making me feel valued throughout. Timely feedback and well-organized steps that kept everything on track and left a positive impression of the company’s culture and values before making a decision on an offer. Highnote sets a high standard for a positive and professional hiring experience. I have a great outlook for my role, the product, and the company within my first 60 days. Highnote also has one of the best/most sensible hybrid working policies I have ever come across being at major tech players and startups within the Bay Area.

Cons

Nothing to note at this time.

1
1.0
24 Mar 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Beautiful office space, 15 minute walk from BART.

Cons

Cult-like work environment where the norm is to work overtime, all the time. Most code is not unit tested. Code is in a monorepo, and not in a good way -- if anyone breaks the build, the entire release is stopped for hours, it's really annoying. I see a lot of code is just copied-and-pasted around; code quality is really low. Not fun to work here, bad culture.

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