Wow, a great company to be part of now.........NOT! - Software Engineer Snap Employee Review

1.0
9 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some really smart co-workers (who got cut in a brutal layoff ), and there is always something to learn from them. Free food ( less and less offered every day )

Cons

Lipstick on a pig, looks fine on the surface, but lots of politics underneath. Especially in very large teams where 20 people might report to one manager. Expect zero transparency from the rest of the company , especially the leadership. Since this has already been the norm for so many years, I highly doubt this culture will change once we all finally move to the "new, centralized" office in Santa Monica. This also means you might not know if a cut is coming until the day it comes! Surprise! Saw a lot of good engineers get laid off just because they were not part of their managers' favorite cliques. And then these poor folks get labeled as 'poor performers' This is what the company has evolved to over the years. Beware, for any folks who might be joining now just because of the tempting new vesting schedule(25-25-25-25). There might be more layoffs coming up! Some folks this time were cut right before their vesting date just so to save the company some money. Smart Move by Snap to break even!

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Recommend
CEO approval
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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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