Don’t plan on building a career here. - Senior Software Engineer Sweed Employee Review

1.0
Apr 2, 2025
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Pros

Remote Salary That is it

Cons

A decent company if you're looking for a temporary job. There are intentionally no metrics or goals, so you can be fired in a day with the explanation: 'You are not good enough for our company.' The only metric I know for being considered a 'good person and developer' is attending unofficial pub meetings with the head of backend. Most employees stay for about a year, with only around five developers having worked there long-term. So, don’t plan on building a career here—it’s just a temporary stop while searching for a real job.

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Sweed Response
1y
Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. We’d like to share a few thoughts to add some context: Most of our current engineering team joined between 2024 and 2025, during a phase of rapid growth where we tripled our headcount. So yes, the team is relatively new — and that’s expected. We’re still early in building a long-term culture, and we’re investing in making it a place people stay and grow. It’s true that we’ve had challenges with setting clear goals and metrics during this scaling phase. We’re not a large, fully mature organization (yet), and we know we have work to do. But we’re improving — step by step — and our processes get stronger every quarter. In the past, we encountered issues like over-employment, disengagement and under-perfomance. This impacted team health, and we’ve since taken steps to fix it. We now use structured improvement plans with clear feedback and time to improve before any termination decisions. If that wasn’t your experience, it may have been before these changes were fully in place. We appreciate your honesty and wish you the best in your next chapter.

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5.0
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Pros

Joined on a short-term contract after applying and being invited by Lisa to help speed up hiring. The interview process was fast, professional, and very transparent clear expectations and real feedback. Onboarding was smooth and well-organized, everything was clear from day one. The team is open, responsible, and easy to work with. People know what they’re doing and genuinely care about the product. Processes make sense and the team actively improves them instead. Modern tools, good tech, solid management, market-level compensation, and benefits in place. Overall, a very positive experience, I genuinely enjoyed working with this team and would recommend the company.

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The contract was short and tied to a specific task. There wasn’t a long-term contractor role available at the time.

2.0
Apr 16, 2025
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Pros

good pay good product well know

Cons

Micro management not a lot of training

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Sweed Response
1y
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We appreciate the positive notes on compensation, the product, and our visibility in the market — those are things we’re proud of. At the same time, we recognize that the feedback on challenges was quite brief, which makes it a bit harder to work with constructively. Still, we’d like to address what was raised. It’s true that we’re currently prioritizing growth and product development. If you're expecting the structure of a large, well-established company, we’re not there yet. We’ve recently launched training initiatives within our engineering team, but we don’t yet have the capacity to support every department equally. On the point of micromanagement — experiences can vary. We support and train our line managers, but management styles differ, and we can’t oversee every situation in real time. It’s an area we continue to monitor and improve. Thanks again for your input — we wish you all the best in your next role.
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