WP Engine Reviews

Teams are quite territorial, and cross-team collaboration can be very difficult. The company doesn't seem to have concrete plans for where they want to go: the long-term roadmap is very muddy. The company's product strategy seems to change regularly, and the marketing strategy is non-existent. There's also a strong cult of personality/Kool Aid thing happening here. If you don't want to spend your free time with your coworkers, playing games and drinking and goofing off, you're deemed a poor culture fit, and woe to anyone who wants to be successful here if that happens. The result is the company skews young and inexperienced, as older, more established people aren't super interested in all the "fun and foosball" of the Austin tech startup scene.

The majority female executives have taken over the company and created a culture steeped feminism. This takeover occurred not by equal opportunity hiring processes, but by Heather Brunner networking with other women outside of work for the purpose of seeding more women into WPE's leadership roles. WPE's leadership justifies this by fancying themselves as contributing towards a greater social good by righting the wrongs they perceive to be perpetrated by men. But this is flagrant discrimination. As a consequence of feminist company culture, men are seen as accomplices to the oppressive patriarchy responsible for holding women down, and the low number of women in the tech field. To keep out people who are not onboard with this program, WPE has put together a majority female talent recruiting team. When WPE recruiters speak about who they look for in a candidate, they have clearly stated that no matter how qualified a person may be, if they are not considered a cultural fit then they will not be hired. What does it mean to be a culture fit? Subscribe to feminism. If you're not onboard with feminism, then you will have a hard time being hired and keeping your employment.