Bad experience - Software Engineer Skillz Employee Review

1.0
21 Aug 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fun problems, sometimes, to solve.

Cons

No product vision, and a culture of fear to get people to work as hard as possible

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Skillz Response
9mo
We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback. We are an agile business in a new field, which sometimes requires a need to pivot quickly. We understand that this approach may not be not for everyone, but we stand by our leadership, our product, and our roadmap towards success. Wishing you best of luck in your future endeavors.

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5.0
11 Jun 2026
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CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1: Great opportunity to build a real portfolio of creative work 2: Flexible with content ideas and lets you run with campaigns 3: Fast-paced environment keeps things interesting day to day 4; Good for learning multiple platforms and analytics tools

Cons

No cons as such. Depends on team to team and the leadership. I don’t face any issue with my KPI or expectations

2.0
4 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Free lunch - Nice office - Great health insurance - Good hours

Cons

- All the negative comments about the CEO are true - HR acts like they want to help but provide no assistance - No raises or bonuses in 2 years and current employees will most likely never get one as Skillz can not meet its goals and raises/bonuses are based on meeting those company wide goals - No support for player advocacy / trust and safety until the situation is at its worst. Have heard a recruiter refer to the team as "children" so team is not respected by the company as a whole. - The company used to be remote, but they have heavily pushed and forced RTO. When I left, I said in my exit interview that I was leaving for a remote role and was told rudely by the HR BP "Wow, people are so spoiled from COVID and remote work.", which I felt was an unnecessary comment from a HR professional. - High turnover - Not taken seriously when providing advice on product launches and the potential fraud that will be seen until it balloons to a point that VIPs take notice and request refunds in mass or users cheat and manage to take thousands in profit due to faults in new product launches and updates. - No job growth

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