Admirable intentions, poor execution - Senior Software Engineer II Ethyca Employee Review

2.0
Nov 10, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Strong focus on user data privacy protections - Open source core technology - Transparent senior-level management - Admirable company values - Excellent medical benefits (U.S.) - Flexible work schedule

Cons

- Financially unstable - Inexperienced engineering organization and leadership - Unwilling to adopt a modern tech stack - Unclear long-term product roadmap - Product is confusing and difficult to deploy and use - Huge amounts of unaddressed tech debt, messy codebase and git history - Engineers focus on individual projects, creating knowledge silos - Frequent organizational realignments and prioritization changes

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5.0
Jun 9, 2020
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Pros

Ethyca is on the verge of something great when it comes to finding a solution to our right to privacy online. The company vision is one we all believe in and know that in time it's going to make a huge difference to our confidence and control of personal data privacy. We are facing a huge but exciting technology and design challenge and we're growing the team quickly to achieve this. It's a great time to be part of this journey. As an aside, the company has been excellent in how it has dealt with the sudden impact of COVID-19 recently and with that, has treated all employees extremely well during this time, in terms of our remote working needs and on a personal level making sure everyone remains closely connected to each other during this time.

Cons

It's a startup! Be ready for a wild ride :)

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2.0
Sep 19, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting open source contributions, grand vision for privacy protections, lots of opportunities for ownership at a high turnover startup

Cons

Large tech-debt backlog and firefighting timespend, short tenures, unsteady culture

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