Some Diamonds, Mostly Rough - Software Engineer (IC3) Tinder Employee Review

2.0
Nov 24, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

A small minority of people in upper engineering leadership are very wise: they're willing to each and treat engineers like humans instead of code monkeys. I learned a great deal from these unfortunately rare individuals.

Cons

The vast majority of engineering leadership only seem to care about what you did for them today. Success is seldom celebrated and dissenting opinions are often chastised. Getting almost anything of significance done is more of a political struggle than a technical one. The operations team, in particular, has management comprised of robots bereft of human emotion, seemingly only concerned with finding who they can say "no" to next.

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Pros

Nice people, great benefits, interesting work.

Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Great company culture and good tech to work on. Fun stack

Cons

Some managers aren't the best which could cause issues for some morale on some teams. Although outside of that, most things are good.

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