Rotten to the Core - Software Engineer LTK Employee Review

1.0
Mar 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

None under the current management

Cons

First, some context on this: Over the past three months, nearly all senior executives and at least half a dozen engineers have all voluntarily departed. Not exactly the signs of a thriving, healthy company. If that weren't bad enough, the new "management" team (recruited from such thriving companies as JC Penny and Yahoo) has turned the company into a total joke and cesspool of political infighting. Aside from being totally clueless and incompetent, many of the decisions carried out by the management team seem to be genuinely mean-spirited—like scheduling layoffs to occur on the last day of the month to avoid paying for health insurance, laying people off the day after Christmas, or tricking people into resigning to avoid paying unemployment. This place is a toxic dump that any self respecting person should want to run far away from. There's honestly too many Cons to list, but I'll just leave some of the highlights: -Insane levels of tech debt wracked up by engineers forced to deliver products on a timeline decided by monkeys throwing darts at a calendar -Political engineering management -Gaping security holes -Random, widespread demotions across entire departments -A culture that promotes blame and pits people against one another -Endless meetings -A joke of an HR dept: Casual racism and sexism is rampant in public slack channels; an employee who exhibited threatening behaviour was kept on for several weeks before being let go -Unobtainable goals recurrently set in order to deny employee bonuses and raises -Projects never completed and code is routinely burned -Below industry pay and benefits -Tech stack is a total mess and veritable graveyard of 'flavor of the day' technologies and frameworks

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5.0
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Pros

Everyone is very welcoming and encouraging. Great benefits. Flexible schedule.

Cons

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2.0
May 20, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

- Used to be a really cool place with innovative, forward-thinking people everywhere. (A lot of the pros are "used" to be"] - There's room to get to know the people you're working with - Good brand recognition - Sometimes people have good ideas you can run with

Cons

Everything about the company now vs. 2-3 years ago is different and in a bad way. Everything is so very disjointed. Decisions are reactive and completely not thought through - they're also being made by tech bros who are simply not the target audience of this brand. They are out of touch and it's ripped the passion and potential right out of the business. Everyone feels like glorified taskhorses. No legit appreciation is given to anyone. All the things that used to make LTK great are no longer and, sadly, that probably means that ShopMy will absolutely run them into the ground. So much potential here which has been disappointing to watch disappear. Senior leadership ahs absolutely no idea what they are doing and they keep throwing things at the wall.

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