Avoid like the plague - Software Development Engineer Zoom Communications Employee Review

2.0
18 Apr 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Very remote friendly work environment Good benefits, compensation

Cons

Poor work life balance - My boss regularly starts standup applauding employees for working until 3 am - My team lead easily works 80+ hours a week - More than once I was told (not asked) to work a weekend on very short notice Painfully inadequate development environment. - After 6+ months of working here and still do not have most hardware my position requires even with talking to IT on a near daily basis - Took over 5 months to get a license to an IDE required on a major platform (Visual Studio) - Needlessly cryptic errors occur frequently with the backend development environment with no information given to devs on how to resolve - Native engineers are not given full access or tooling required to build the full client so debugging requires queuing a full client jenkins build, downloading it once finished, replacing binaries with locally build debug ones, and attaching debugger to client. - Bugs reported internally are held to no standard, reproduction is often just a title with no description on prerequisites / context Rampant rubber-stamping preferred over any sort of testing infrastructure - NO automated testing. NONE - Preference on tools like TestRail requiring creating many manual test cases by hand (most are never referenced / checked again after creation)

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5.0
15 May 2026
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Pros

flexible hours, reasonable deadlines. good pay.

Cons

Long hours and not as fast paced.

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Zoom Communications Response
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It’s great to hear that you value the flexible hours, reasonable deadlines, and competitive compensation. We appreciate you taking the time to share your perspective and your continued dedication as a member of the Zoom team.
1.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nothing about this company is worth noting.

Cons

One of the worst companies I have worked at. Management and leadership are disorganized and unsupportive. Employees get treated like dogs and are talked down to. No work life balance because everything is an escalation or because some “head” requested something. For a company so well regarded, they sure know to how be cheap and take away benefits. Parental leave is basically a slap you in the face. Comp is high but expect to have that dangled in your face or else you get let go. On site lunch and breakfast is nice but how much can you sugar coat the terrible work conditions with little snacks? Everything is such a mess. I’ve been here for almost 7 months and have not met a single person that enjoys their job. DO NOT JOIN ZOOM!

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