Really, do not work here - Senior Software Engineer Snap Employee Review

1.0
Sep 24, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You will hone your knife sharpening skills You will increase your backstab multiplier, if you don’t get fired You can make your own path to success on the broken backs of your coworkers

Cons

Surrounded with low quality engineering culture Secrecy, secrey, secrecy No career development whatsoever Poor decisions all around Very toxic, mean, exclusionary culture. Its accepted and worse, expected and rewarded

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Pros

- Great base comp - Unlimited PTO - Good food at offices

Cons

- Leadership is incompetent. This company will die and when it does, it will be no one's fault other than Evan. - If you disagree with leadership and speak up, you will be punished. All SMC VPs hired each other from past companies. They are all corporate ladder climbers from Meta with no morals. - Being a leader at Snap means leading through fear and regularly throwing tantrums in conference rooms. - The ads business is a joke. No matter how many ex-[insert big tech name] engineers work on the product, you can't monetize an audience of 13 year olds or people who's sole use case for this app is inappropriate. - There is truly nothing redeeming about this business, B2C or B2B. It's all smoke and mirrors. I've never seen the population of monetizable users grow, it's only gone down since I've joined. To offset this we acquire the cheapest users possible to appease investors who see straight through this BS.

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