Great experience with poor outcomes - Software Programmer TechEmpower Employee Review

TechEmpower really values good engineers and makes it a great place to work if you value working with other good engineers.

If you are not a good engineer, there's no place to hide.

Low pressure mostly laid back atmosphere. Freedom to choose your os and tooling for the most part. Very very large monitors, great for coding. Some genuinely nice and interesting folks.

Compensation and benefits are average or below average. The culture is very confusing. During the interview process the culture was presented as warm and inviting, but that seems to be more of an aspiration than a reality. As another reviewer alluded, there seems to be a classic high school "cool kids" group with all the classic negative attributes. There are some genuinely nice folks who transcend the cool, uncool kids grouping so try to be one of them and maybe the culture can change. The other con would be the nature of the work, the interesting work seems to go to a few senior developers while the majority of developers work on minor updates or maintenance. That sort of work distribution is pretty normal, people who have proven themselves get to work on hard things, but unlike most places, there is no clear path for progression.