Life360

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.

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.

Dear CEO, I have read all your responses to the reviews. You very much care about the profits your company makes and you certainly do not care a bit about the employees' happiness at work. Yes having a new CTO is cool but stop making it sound like that's the fix. That speaks volumes about the leadership quality. The bad apples are still around and you are aware.