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Frat Club, and not in a good way

Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Tinder for 2 years
March 3, 2017
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Free meals. Free workouts. Used to let dogs in the office. Unlimited time off.

Cons

Long hours. It's a total frat house. Don't get me wrong. I can hang with the best (was president of my college chapter), but this kind of company culture was even too much for me.

All the "senior" people are friends of the founder, people in their 20s who have had no other job, yet have VP titles. Which means no real leadership.

And they have yet to hire real adults because they just keep hiring friends of friends. I was excited about the possibility of working here but it didn't last long when I saw it was just an internal frat club and if you weren't in the in club, there was no chance of progressing or making any real change.

Advice to Management

Hire adults with real experience. You can't look up to a "VP" whose only experience is being in the "in club." The company is a mess with no real direction, and it will take a lot more than good hires to fix it. There's no vision, and the employees are the first to feel that. The new CEO seems to try hard to fit in with constant sports references, but there's no real sense of culture either.

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