Getting a lot better - Anonymous employee Snap Employee Review

4.0
Mar 11, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Executive team, SVPs, and managers have done a lot of work to act based on employee feedback and missteps from previous years. It feels like they actually care and want to do what they can to address feedback (even if that means they can't do a ton). For example, employees gave a ton of feedback about managers with no experience managing doing a terrible job and they rolled out an in-depth training with a third party to all managers about 6 months later. Another example -- I still remember when Evan said that he'd never go to the press and that people need to experience the product value to understand it. Clearly that wasn't working, so Snap hired a great Comms leader, and now it feels like there's a clear press/PR strategy. Everyone seems willing to learn from mistakes or reconsider their POV. It's refreshing. There's also a real emphasis on company values in the performance review process with very tactical details on what this looks like in action. The values feel concrete, which is refreshing.

Cons

Everything still feels a bit disjointed. There are a lot of people waiting for a vest date to leave. They can be a drag on the real work to be done. The employer brand is weak in the marketplace, and that makes it difficult to hire new people and cultivates resentment for existing employees if people do decide to leave. Career pathing isn't really developed yet.

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- 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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