Pros: A lot of smart people coming from well-known names in tech. A lot of engineering to be done.

Cons: Software engineers are akin to assembly line workers here. You'd better deliver something in your 9 AM-10 PM shift every single day or you'll quickly find yourself in trouble. You will have little to no ownership over your work unless you are in an inner circle. There is no sense of team and no sense of belonging. This is not a place where careers are built or sustained. Most companies at least make an effort to live their stated values, but at Rippling, the whole values thing is a complete sham.

Pros: Base compensation is good, but most of the other variable compensation doesn't get paid out. They'll find reasons to pull your ratings down so that you don't get the variable comp.

Cons: - Toxic work culture. Managers ask people to be in the office at odd hours. They are not empathetic enough. They want reportees to be in the office based on the time they come to the office. - Every miss or negative comment is documented, while appreciation is rare. - Show-off culture. If you show that you're working without actually delivering things, then you get promoted. High performers often quit because they are not into office politics. - Colleagues try to pull you down so that they can climb up the ladder. - No one wants to build relations here. Communications are very transactional and mostly negative. - No planning or sense of direction. It's such a simple product, but there are so many bugs in it because there's no engineering lead that sticks around to see things end to end. - Slack is mostly filled with negative messages.

Pros: - Good pay, and engineers who are nice to work with surprisingly, given all the negatives (at least on my team).

Cons: - Terrible wlb - Bad benefits, no 401k match, bad 401k investment options, and the HSA website is some half-baked wrapper on some other company's HSA product - Managers encourage you to ship out code at a velocity which all but guarantees terrible quality products - The worst performing question on our company survey was "Would you recommend your manager to others" which tells you what you need to know about the managers at Rippling - Feedback is consistently negative, even for high-performers; and I know a lot of people leave for this sole reason, because it's mentally draining just hearing all the bad stuff you did over the past sprint during your 1-1s without any positives - Very short tenures for everyone, where either you get fired, or you realize you're too good for this company and leave, and a recruiter told me the average tenure at Rippling is 9 months (apparently that's improving, but I know a few people who left after a few weeks or a couple months cause it was so toxic) - In other companies I've worked at, we had a "blameless" policy, where if there's an outage or an incident, we work to fix the underlying problems that allowed the engineer to create this mistake. Not here, because the COO will personally write on slack "which engineer is responsible for this problem" and call them out. Incredibly toxic and the COO wrote a whole essay explaining why he calls out people like this after someone suggested that this was a wrong thing to do and not productive - If you have any other offers, I encourage you to take that since this is such a bad company to work for. Since starting, around 11 people were either fired or left on their own just on my team, and currently there's only 1 person that was hired before me that's on the team, and I only started like a year ago