Poor engineering culture, non-collaborative on some teams - Anonymous employee Vanta Employee Review

2.0
Aug 30, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great compensation and benefits - Many individual team members are nice and friendly - Skip level meetings and 1:1s are encouraged

Cons

- Limited career growth opportunities depending on your team - Collaboration is limited in many capacities so you don't have a lot of room to learn from teammates you admire - Poor communication styles of a lot of engineering managers - Some engineering managers have no time to dedicate to working on career development with their reports because they are stretched too thin - Some engineering managers were not ICs in their given field so they have poor knowledge of what it takes to do a task well (Peter Principle) - Favoritism and who has the "loudest opinion" seems to pay off the most at the company; this actually results in a lot of tech debt and a lot of work that is low leverage - Limited feedback from colleagues during planning stages, which leads to a lot of "surprises" when it comes to execution time. - Planning is unusually long and there is no dedication to working plans out as a team - Burnout is way too high amongst engineers (in my time, there was a 2 month period where 4 engineers left because of this) - Work-life balance is not given even lip service at the company; it's expected you put work first

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5.0
Jun 15, 2026
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Pros

Great salary, I work on a team that has excellent balance. I get recognized when I do good work.

Cons

Company has a big focus on AI, but not sure we’re all marching in the same direction and often doesn’t feel like a good use of resources.

2.0
Jun 9, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good pay and benefits, decent work life balance

Cons

This place is incredibly dysfunctional. Every day feels draining. Toxic and rude coworkers, immature leadership, incompetent and ineffective management, inefficient processes... it's nearly impossible to get anything done without multiple layers of review and endless rounds of revisions. The bureaucracy is exhausting. Decisions are made in siloes and often walked back because they weren’t thought through properly to begin with. Information is shared selectively and you will often learn of things “through the grapevine”. Priorities, goals, metrics are nowhere to be found. There's little sense of culture and very little to no focus on employee experience, DEI, or anything beyond the bottom line. Many people come across as disengaged, transactional, and self-interested. Development opportunities are limited, and career and compensation growth are slow even for strong performers. Office politics are prevalent, employee concerns are rarely acted on, and meaningful feedback is rarely given or asked for. There is an overwhelming focus on AI, often without consideration of resource usage, output quality, or security implications, which is surprising given the industry. Usage is duplicative, disconnected, and directionless. I've honestly never felt less connected to my work. At some point, I found myself emotionally checking out just to preserve my own well-being.

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