Terrific people working together to make GIANT things happen - Anonymous employee Jump Platforms Employee Review

- Excellent leadership, direction, and targets - Fantastic co-workers - Clear, meaningful mission - Trust and autonomy

- There is some crunch time on the horizon, but we're up for the challenge - Heavy encouragement to adopt AI tools

I used AI to help me write this review. After everything I experienced here, I wanted to make sure my words came out measured and fair rather than just venting. I'll also be upfront, I was PIP'd here. With that said, I genuinely tried to give an honest review, and I ended up quitting on my own terms, so make of that what you like. The engineers here are some of the most talented I've worked with, each with impressive backgrounds, doing genuinely interesting work with AI in a large microservice architecture. I learned a lot technically and that part lived up to everything I hoped for. It's also worth noting that middle management was genuinely trying. They were doing their best to advocate for their teams but were largely working with their hands tied by decisions coming from above.

Eventually it became clear that performance here was based more on perception than output. How loud and visible you were in meetings mattered more than what you actually shipped. You could ship a major feature being promoted all over their social media and be told you weren't doing enough because you weren't being loud and political about it. Then came WorkWeave.ai, an AI tool that scores your code output and estimates how long an expert engineer would take to do the work. Nobody really understood how it worked or how to move the score. Leadership started using it as a performance monitoring tool despite it literally displaying a banner saying the data was incomplete. PIPs started going out based on these scores. I was one of the lucky recipients. A month later, the CTO stated in an engineering-wide meeting, with complete composure, that he didn't care about WorkWeave scores and they weren't being used to evaluate performance. I had a PIP document in front of me with my WorkWeave score typed on it and the exact number I needed to hit to get off it. I've seen more convincing performances, but not many. Multiple engineers started quietly looking for exits as a result, and a few beat me out the door. It later came to light that the PIP wave was actually a compromise. The original plan was to lay off more engineers than those who ultimately received PIPs and may have included brand new hires.