Robinhood

Great colleagues to work with, responsible, smart, and many have strong financial knowledge.

The leadership is extremely incompetent for both prod and engineering. There are many frictions in the app that are driving away customers, but no actions from senior leadership level. They only care about launching new features. Yet, the product strategy is not clear, and I don’t see business upside. From the engineering side, there are little efforts in reliability. Senior eng leads were let go. No vision. Lots of SEVs. Senior leadership relies on processes to manage the company, e.g., enforce a minimum number of diffs per month. Instead of building a clear strategy and holding a high bar themselves, the leadership is putting lots of pressure on employees through RIF, PIP, diff count enforcement, RTO, and no wellness days. They don’t care about employees at all. Things are becoming very toxic. Once people were very engaged and committed; now they are only doing their job for job security.

Retain customers first before launching new features. Care about your employees.