Abnormal AI

The only redeeming part of working at Abnormal used to be the people. Sadly, a lot of them were laid off or “managed out” by the leadership with no particular cause or direction.

The lack of direction, basic competency, and absolute decision-making chaos is one of the defining features of this company. I have absolutely no confidence in the CEO's ability to define solid direction for this company and then stick to it. This company hasn't shipped anything major in over two years.

The lack of execution isn't just on the CEO. You can tell from other reviews here that engineering is being heavily micromanaged by the CTO whose planning and system design skills don't seem to go beyond "what can you hack together in a week". As a direct result of this, the execution velocity has stalled, there are outages happening almost every single week, and every engineer who is within the vicinity of being on the pager is months into a solid burnout.

Career growth: no matter how much they tell you that Abnormal Security is a "career enabler" if you're an engineer you will end up doing one of two things:

• Hacking together some Django apps hoping you won't have to maintain them
• Constantly fighting outages and customer escalations

That's it. The reward for your hard work is nothing but more work. And good luck doing this for a few years and then trying to interview somewhere else.