Prepare for long hours and surprises - QA Engineer Snap Employee Review

3.0
17 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Best compensation package in the LA area. When it comes to engineering, no one pays better - Free benefits (as in for you and your family) and I'm not talking just HMO - OK meals, but hey, they are free - Best vesting schedule with no cliff ... for newer employees - Creative and smart engineers - Hard working team

Cons

- As mentioned in the title, prepare to put in long hours. If you are not working overtime, you are probably not in engineering or you are a legacy employee just waiting to fully vest - Communication between teams (and even within teams) needs improvement - Sink or swim mentality - Not a great place for work/life balance (unless you are single or family comes second to you) - Competition is high. People seem to try to hard to vie for attention. - When stuff breaks, there are no good processes in place. As a result, people usually work in reactionary mode. - Coffee sucks - Not enough bathrooms (in my building anyway)

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Cons

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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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