Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Pros: - Really interesting product line to work with
- Solving complex, challenging, and rewarding problems
- Great place to level up your technical career
Cons: - Work life balance is joke, engineers are constantly grinding. Nights and weekends are normal hours for some. Some engineers are just workaholics.
- Product for some reason thinks they control deadlines, so software has to crunch to make ends meet. This is also create a toxic relationship between product and engineering.
- We keep rushing out software, and then are shocked when the things go wrong.
- Mandatory Hybrid policy while most other companies are offering remote. Office is not easy to access location in city (Fenway)
- Despite everyone giving it their all, the company itself is not performing well. Growth has been stagnant for almost 2 years. And two rounds of Layoffs.
- The worst of all, is Whoop tried to acknowledge these problems last summer, but I see we are just repeating them over and over.
- There are many features in the Whoop app that are abandon, and we never polish features, just jump to the next new shiny thing.