Hopper takes Hire and Fire to another level - Software Engineer Hopper Employee Review

1.0
Mar 3, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Remote Work, Unlimited PTO's and some highly skilled engineers. A very enthusiastic culture and a decent technical stack. Competitive salaries.

Cons

Hopper considers people as just resources and follows a hire and fire model. In some sense it actually worst than the Amazon PIP Culture. The keeper test is real. After passing a three month review period you would think that your job is now secure and you align with your manager's expectations but that's not true; Hopper is infamous for letting a lot of workers go before the one year stock vesting. You don't get any performance review or a PIP, you are just let go without any explanation. It seems like the managers have an unfair power to let people go without investing much into them. The WLB in my opinion is decent but can sometimes lead to burn out. When it comes to management there is no clear goal or strategy; there are number and some vague plans to achieve them which often change based on some meaningless experiments and premature data.

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5.0
Mar 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Competitive pay and team structure is good.

Cons

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2.0
Mar 12, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

pay, remote, some good/smart people in pockets

Cons

Senior leaders could not care less about employees and routinely make bad market decisions leading to foreseeable product issues and eventual layoff cycles. There was a time a few years back where employees criticized the dark patterns in the app - the president got pissed and said 'the data didn't show it was an issue', then a few months later when we got bad press about those patterns dismissed it as our competitors planting stories - sums up the culture pretty clearly.

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