Meetings Overload - Software Engineer Toast Inc Employee Review

3.0
7 Apr 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-remote -generally nice and collaborative coworkers -benefits and comp if you joined at a low stock price.

Cons

-Crazy amount of meetings (20+ hours/week) to result in no decisions/progress. More often than not, there are times when you have 3-4 hours of back to back to back meetings and no time to take a dump or do actual work. Then if you are in an org that needs to interface with overseas teams, expect meetings at night from 8pm-10pm. This means no down time to watch TV, go out for date nights, putting your kid to sleep. I would not recommend to join such a team unless you are single or just really don’t like your family. -general disorganization where you need to monitor random channels with hundreds of people who shoot out random questions into the void. Requirements and design decisions change on a whim. -decisions by committee where everyone can provide different opinions and no one is there to make a final consensus.

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Toast Inc Response
1y
Although this review was difficult to read, we're grateful for your feedback. Since your review indicates that you're a current employee, we hope that we can discuss your concerns further and improve your experience. Please reach out to your People Success Partner so that we can best support you.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hybrid work, great culture working for the company, benefits and pay is pretty good as well

Cons

Can feel hard to move within the company as opportunities don't open up often for specialist to move upwards

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Toast Inc Response
3w
We appreciate you sharing a candid review with us. We’re delighted that the culture and benefits are resonating with you. We'd recommend reaching out to your People Success Partner to discuss your feedback further.
2.0
26 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The benefits and health insurance are amazing and the company culture as a whole is very positive. It was a pleasure to work with almost everyone I met in my time there.

Cons

Lower management, especially for care teams, deeply lacks integrity. Retaliatory practices, lack of communication, and failure to adhere to their own policies are very common behavior depending on who your manager is. The inconsistencies across what is expected from leadership are profound and it is disappointing how much this can derail your career trajectory at Toast. It’s also very difficult to help customers at times, as Toast is notorious for launching new products at customers and providing little to no support to agents that are then expected to troubleshoot using sparse or nonexistent resources and absolutely no training. Cross-collaboration with teams that occasionally intersect is also very challenging, particularly Sales/Onboarding and Care. There were many instances where sales and onboarding specialists set customers up with false expectations of the product, which leaves care teams to deal with the aftermath.

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