Canva

Good product, remote-friendly, decent office, and working with smart engineers.

• Growth for software engineers is slow. Managers will hold a carrot on a stick and are unsupportive.

• Processes are horrible; things move extremely slowly despite having unreasonable deadlines.

• Work hours are getting worse; it's not uncommon to work 60-hour weeks.

• Some teams are extremely toxic with high attrition. I've seen five people leave the company from one team within the last six months. Toxicity is coming from group leads themselves.

• Pay is not worth the stress. On-call rates are terrible despite getting woken up to alerts at 2 AM weekly. I had a better experience working at AWS.

Do better to keep your engineers; they are obviously the best in Australia. Improve your processes so engineers aren't left scratching their heads over questionable product direction.