Navan

Honestly? the only one is that there are lots of dogs. The pay is decent - on par (and a little bit lower) than other decent public Israeli companies.

There are no raises, however, so that’s the case only for the first year.

Let me begin with the fact that I personally don’t know a single happy employee in the Israeli site.

I’m not even joking.

I’ve never seen such a churn rate.

Its a known joke in the company - you don’t know who is gonna disappear next.

Interpersonal cons:

• Absolute and complete toxic management.

Choose any toxic aspect you want and its there! micromanagement, endless hours and no work life balance, arrogance, gaslighting and whatnot.

• There’s no celebrating success - other companies have weekly happy hours which are more fancy than this company’s IPO celebration.
• You can’t really connect to anyone because they’re always leaving.
• The company announced they’ll embrace yearly layoffs like they do in Amazon, so prepare for that!

Technical cons:

• The majority of the company’s codebase is in a single enormous repository that’s impossible to maintain or work with.
• Security procedures cause developer productivity to be reduced to absolute zero.

You can’t do anything without endless approvals and engineers knowingly skip good practices to overcome this.

• Lots of core functionality is written in an extremely fragile and low quality code.
• Endless politics which you can’t avoid, because you’ll have to deal with unbearable developers with political power to do your job.
• Teams scattered over the world make you work with other time zones.
• The extreme churn causes sources of knowledge to leave, leaving you with piles of code to deal with yourself.