No engineering culture, typical feature factory
No engineering culture, typical feature factory
- Fully remote
- Perks (free monitor + cutting-edge MacBook Pro after a few years)
- Working on open-source product (with major caveats***)
- Okay-ish base pay + RSU
- Feature factory.
- No code quality or tech debt cleanup processes.
- A lot of micromanaging engineer managers.
- Product managers are unprofessional and make up tickets on the go but never engage with engineers to refine them.
- "Autonomy" and 10x shitcoding is praised while healthy collaboration is discouraged.
- Promotions are only for feature factory overachievers once every 2-3 years.
- Codebase, while public, is a testament to grotesquely bad engineers.
- Culture of overwork and working two shifts across EU and US.
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