Snap

This is a review for the Berlin office of Snap. It was formerly known as Fit Analytics, as the company was acquired by Snap in 2021.

• strong core product, Fit Finder
• nice colleagues, you can learn a lot
• benefits, diversity, and inclusion efforts

Since the acquisition by Snap, it has been a downhill ride. All the key decisions have been taken by the US executives; managers in Berlin are puppets. Since the poor business metrics and the following layoffs, people are leaving the sinking ship left and right.

• Huge issues with the consistency and vision. For example, it took them a couple of years to come up with a remote working policy, only for this to be reverted as they mandated a come back to the office, which was heavily opposed by the employees.
• Awful standards in the office: smelly toilets, dirty surfaces.
• Toxic work environment; backstabbing and brown-nosing are encouraged by the local management.
• Adding more layers of mid-management with no clear responsibilities.
• The automation work is done only to make people redundant.
• Long working hours and taking more ownership are encouraged with no extra pay nor recognition.

I don't think any advice would apply to the managers in Berlin, as they are not in a position to take any major decisions anymore. (What are they doing anyway?)

The office in Berlin is meant to support the operations of the core product, Fit Finder, for as long as the product is not integrated completely into the Snap environment. Once that happens, for the US overlords, it will not be worth keeping the local operations running.