small company, small bets, bad culture - Anonymous employee Quora, Inc. Employee Review

2.0
Aug 30, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

some top engineering talent, good location in downtown mv, good food, good parties

Cons

the company has been making small, incremental bets for years now. junior managers are unfamiliar with how to grow employees. there's a limited market opportunity with google and wikipedia as incumbents in the space. high attrition among top employees, surprisingly seen a large number of female employees leave. there are too many unclear/bloated titles. churn in product development process every 2 months. some hipsters have formed exclusive cliques to the exclusion of others. company pretends transparency is a core value (even has glass conference room walls like facebook) but is transparent about very few things. there's a weekly q&a where adam takes questions and doles out standard, rehearsed responses. overall, the company culture is ridden with hypocrisy and favoritism. ps: just reading through some of the other positive reviews feels like they've been planted by the company. the vast majority of people who left around the same time as me had the same experience.

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