Run away - Senior Software Engineer Postmates Employee Review

1.0
13 Apr 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fun to say I work at Postmates

Cons

This company has the potential to have a bigger marketshare but postmates is held back by leadership who does not know how to treat its people right. IPO is near but all of my coworkers know our company will be destined to be the next Blue Apron. While the CEO is the reason for all of the internal issues. Those who reports directly into him lacks empathy and does whatever they can to please the CEO. This company doesnt care about the bottom line. The amount of things I witnessed at this company is appalling, everything from the innappropriate things the CEO says during looking glass to being berated by management over trivial matters. I noticed that those who are brought into management are favored not due to their hard work and qualifications but favoritisms and their connections to the CEO. You will see friends and family being hired into key positions. Don’t expect to earn a promotion or receive a respectable raise here. In my time here, I’ve seen bad turnover unlike other tech startups Is this setting up an employees for success or the company to fail with so many employees leaving. Turnover is bad. The lovely people you meet during your initial rounds of interview will be gone in a matter of months and you will be left in the dust. Working at Postmates was one of the most taxing thing I have ever done in my career. I have worked at many startups in the past but Postmates is the one that identifies most closely with the Wild Wild West - management have created a working environment dominated by politics and fear. My team learned not to speak up against management because they Are hearing impaired. I’m not sure how much longer I can work for such a toxic place disguised as a company

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Pros

team seemed to genuinely care about the work

Cons

a lot of unnecessary office politics

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