Pros: Seemingly above-average pay and benefits

Cons: I went through the interview process with this company and pulled out before the onsite stage. Everybody I met from this company gives me the creeps. First one was the recruiter, who was rude on the phone and kept pressing about my salary expectations even after I said I'd like to meet the team first. It was very unprofessional and honestly strange. I've never had a company do this to me, and then I talked to the hiring manager. This guy seemed entirely obsessed with velocity and doesn't know anything else. I asked him about their eng design process before impl. He said they don't do design anymore and just use ChatGPT to code an "MVP" and that's their design? What does that even mean? Then he was visibly STUNNED and paused for a good 10s when I asked what he considered important when it comes to talent retention. You can tell he's never thought about that before. Terrible, terrible leadership, full of red flags. I pulled out immediately after that. This company's culture seems extremely toxic and dysfunctional. Would absolutely avoid.

Pros: The product has a huge user base, but it's not a rocket science technology to replicate. Apple has been very unhappy with what Life360 is doing so far, and Apple engineers and teams are aware.

Cons: Mobile leadership is a complete let down. People of a certain race and men were favored. If you are a female engineer and have issues with these favorites, please cry inside the restroom. You would get a bad review through your manager claiming that you are very sensitive. If the favorites get aggressive and exhibit unprofessional behavior, live with it. The mobile leadership would threaten to fire the entire team for these favorites. There were instances of management secretly spying on their colleagues with their very own app features to prove how bad this favoritism exists. This might sound crazy, but yes, it did happen. Bad engineers: - Staff engineers who are old school were hired as friends of the cofounders. - Now they are messing up the engineering roadmap with their own ideas. - Engineers who do nothing but talk enough are plenty here. - Some end up being favorites to the leadership team. - They would go on countless vacations like they are paid for all of it and still get a promotion. Bad acquisition: - Rotten apples come together as a group. - The leadership in San Diego knows how to play politics and get away with it. - They are known for adding code into the repository that has nothing but bugs written all over it. - The San Diego leadership team likes to hire favorites even if the team in SF who interviews say no to these favorites. - The San Diego leadership hides secrets related to technology (hello PathSense, you have been acquired, act like one) and trains the employees in San Diego on how to behave in San Francisco, especially in front of the HR. - Even though they are part of Life360, they act like they are their own pack of wolves. A lot of fake reviews could be seen on Glassdoor from the HR. They hired enough people to write these fake reviews. Please be wary and do your own mindful research elsewhere before you even consider interviewing with this company. One of the very old reviews would have mentioned that engineering is a revolving door. This is quite true and painful that it still happens after 4 years.

Pros: It is great to work on a product that has real impact. We get dozens of user reviews talking about how we literally saved a family member's life. The team has a ton of exceptionally smart people, especially those who have joined in the last couple of years. I have been with the company for over 3 years now, and there were some times when some people were not putting in the hours, but in the last year most of these people were let go, and although it was a tough transition I now feel like I am working with some of the smartest people I have seen in my career. Most of the people on the team are also more family-oriented and there is not a brogrammer culture.

Cons: Life360 has very high expectations, and some of the other reviews that mention people being let go are true. You do need to perform well, and although I didn't see the micromanagement others have mentioned here, it is true that if you are not high performing you might be let go. There has also been a lot of change. The company raised a lot of money a year ago and the move to a more structured environment has not been easy and there were some mistakes made along this process, although lately things have felt very smooth and exciting. There were also a lot of projects going on at once which was hard, but this has also been something that has improved a lot over the last year.