Paltry recognition of contributions, below-average pay raises, chaotic performance review processes (there has not been a standard process here in my over 2 years of being here), and the constant hypocrisy of being a “career defining place to work” while simultaneously providing no internal growth opportunities within the engineering org. Many folks at the IC level in engineering + product are overworked and are being asked to wear multiple hats that often have conflicting interests, while simultaneously being held to unknown metrics with no clear indication of exactly how performing to standards will benefit their career. CTO does not trust internal talent (they are also the CPO, I should add): Multiple senior SonderMind engineering + product folk have departed the company in the past few months, losing YEARS of vital product + codebase context, with many of those departures being due to promotion rejections at the CTO level (approved at all other levels). Further, the engineering org has no plan to better support teams due to the recessionary environment (despite saying it’s a buyers market), promote internally, or open up new positions to support teams that are stretched too thin. In the current environment, becoming an engineer at SonderMind is a dead-end job.
