Exciting, disheartening, overwhelming - Anonymous employee Snap Employee Review

2.0
20 Jun 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Your product is being used by hundreds of millions of people -Comparable perks to other top tech companies (food, health, gym, PTO, 401k etc) -Most regular employees are pretty amazing; I’ve made lifelong friends

Cons

-Absolutely toxic culture...constant fear of layoffs, Evan (CEO) suddenly pulling plug on a project -Soulless and heartless management -Company is willing to spend tens of millions a year on events, parties, millions of dollars of security for Evan, private jets for execs, Evan takes the biggest payout in the history of the corporate world...but then we trim certain snacks because they’re slightly too expensive and layoff hundreds of employees (many of which could’ve found a home on a different team) in a cost cutting exercise -We’re absolutely losing the war against our competitors and it was tough to watch it happen -Can’t trust anyone

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- 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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