Zoom

There used to be some good benefits, but all were stripped away this year. Surprisingly, I have absolutely nothing good to say. Maybe the free lunch? But those were cut down, and the quality is quite on the low end. Big name company? I don't know. Full remote? Oh, wait, they don't let you be full remote either, unless you're in a different location.

If I could give it 0 stars, I would have. I should disclaimer that this review is catered toward SWEs, as other roles seem to have some sort of happiness from what I can tell.

Let me tell you, if you want to have zero work-life balance, by all means, join this company. I came here as someone new to the field from another company, as I thought joining a big-name tech company would provide me opportunities to learn. Boy, was I wrong.

Depending on what department you are put into, there is a high chance you will be put into a 996 workstyle. If you enjoy PM, QA, and design, on top of your dev job, this is the role for you because, surprise, you will do all of them.

You will find yourself in a deep hole of tech debt with no one listening to you about these issues because they want to just keep pushing features.

A great company if you enjoy the following:

• Unlimited PTO that is actually not unlimited but restricted to regular PTO days without the benefits of regular PTO.
• Standard sick days, but you are actually only allowed to take 2-3 as that is the legal "minimum."
• Any wellness benefits that provided some type of happiness were stripped.
• Zero work-life balance.
• 996 workstyle, so easily 12-hour+ days regularly.
• Zero career growth if you are on certain teams (this I would know, as I left my previous company to learn a relevant tech stack and advance my career).

All they want you to do is put bandaids on bugs and push constant features without time to fix prior bugs properly or research and learn new tech. You will be stuck in a doom loop.

Oh, one more thing, from my own personal experience from my department. If you do any sort of company survey, be sure to give it full stars, or management will, instead of taking constructive criticism, take it as an attack on them and think of a bad work-life balance rating as there are too many "low" performers and threaten firing/layoffs.

I regret ever leaving my last company for this big-name tech company that is run by delusional management. Delivering happiness? More like delivering sadness.

Take care of your employees instead of overworking them with terrible workflow and management.

Get rid of toxic management who blame engineers for everything when there is no support.