Coinbase Reviews

Company has pretty much been in a downhill spiral since about 4 months before it went public. This has nothing to do with the decisions about "no politics at work" and everything to do with outwardly hostile, sociopathic senior management that was all hired about this time. As an engineer you will spend 2-10 hours of your week interviewing new candidates (apparently the 'hiring' team is just a passthrough), more time learning new interviews (we all have to learn 20 new ones by the end of the year!) and if you're anything past a junior engineer about 20 more hours a week will be interviews. Oh and if you're in charge of bootcamp mentoring or on call another 10-20 hours is gone from your day. So you then have to work evenings and weekends or your work just won't get done. And don't think they won't notice if you skip a Saturday, they will. Don't expect your manager to help either because they're required by the new rules to spend 50% of their time on new hire headhunting and interviews and if you ever see your manager's schedule it's meetings 9-5 anyway. They'll message you at 8 PM asking you to do something, have a weekly sync with you where they tell you you're off track and need to work harder or you're fired in 60 days (New 'on track pulses' every quarter to keep you motivated by fear) and throw new work at you and say 'figure it out'. Upper management sits around spewing nonsense about NFTs and how we're totally going to be saving starving African farmers with crypto any second now. Self-righteous lip service while they basically hold employees hostage to 80 hour work weeks with their stock option vesting schedule. You're here making the execs (and if you're lucky yourselves) and Chinese speculators richer, don't kid yourselves. Oh and there's no QA or testing. Nope, zero. Don't believe in it. Instead we sneakily try to fix things in production by constantly firefighting with 'incidents'. I can't tell you all the shady borderline illegal things I've been asked to do to cover this up either. Couldn't actually test things, better put that on the engineers too. If this all doesn't put you off though I will admit, great place to make money. If the stress doesn't kill you by 40 you can retire.

Coinbase suffers from a lack of competent leadership. The most notable example of this is Brian Armstrong's recent actions in response to an employee walkout because he refused to make a simple statement supporting black lives (like most other companies were doing at the time). Instead of learning from the situation and listening to employees, he publicly asked those who disagreed to leave and banned open discussion from the company slack and AMAs. This was an extreme and unnecessary step that caused high stress and conflict within the company in the midst of a pandemic. Worse, it alienated minority employees and actively undermined belonging and inclusion work being done. This was the largest unforced error by leadership, but not the first (see also the Chicago office and Neutrino acquisition). Coinbase also has an unhealthy self-described "intense" work culture. Work-life balance is poor and burnout is common. In my experience the people who are most successful and get promotions here are the people working long hours and weekends. If you want to have a manageable workload and a rich life outside of work this is not the right company for you.