The worst place to work - Anonymous employee Snap Employee Review

1.0
13 Feb 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Snap is hands down the worst company I have ever been a part of in my entire career. There is no support and it’s a total sink or swim type environment. Employees are overly competitive with peers and it’s truly an environment where you need to fend for yourself completely. Although you will get to work with a lot of super smart people, they are mostly entitled, arrogant and egotistical. This type of behavior among employees is unfortunately very common. There’s a HUGE lack of female leadership which is always alarming. It’s truly a men’s club at the executive level where everyone is trying to get in, and will stab anyone in the back to do so. It’s a fear based operation that leaves employees being in a constant state of uncomfortableness and stress. The one real pro of working here is, as i mentioned above, is there are a lot of super smart people here that are visionary for what the future holds in terms of how communication and mobile advertising are evolving.

Cons

Working here is actually like being a part of a terrible cult where you’re expected to give your entire life to working for this operation. Really think twice before joining and especially if you have to relocate to the LA area.

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Pros

- Great base comp - Unlimited PTO - Good food at offices

Cons

- Leadership is incompetent. This company will die and when it does, it will be no one's fault other than Evan. - If you disagree with leadership and speak up, you will be punished. All SMC VPs hired each other from past companies. They are all corporate ladder climbers from Meta with no morals. - Being a leader at Snap means leading through fear and regularly throwing tantrums in conference rooms. - The ads business is a joke. No matter how many ex-[insert big tech name] engineers work on the product, you can't monetize an audience of 13 year olds or people who's sole use case for this app is inappropriate. - There is truly nothing redeeming about this business, B2C or B2B. It's all smoke and mirrors. I've never seen the population of monetizable users grow, it's only gone down since I've joined. To offset this we acquire the cheapest users possible to appease investors who see straight through this BS.

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