Run as fast as you can - Senior Software Engineer Xendit Employee Review

2.0
Oct 27, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary and benefits like WFH are really good. Teams are located in various countries so you get to work with different people. Some people are technically very good.

Cons

Work-Life balance is not available. Old architecture/decisions are coming back to haunt the teams. Rather than investing on fixing the existing code base the focus is always more on pushing new stuff. Old folks are favored more because they get every other opportunity to grow and become gate keepers. No funding round in last 18 months, and spending money on weird adventures like company trip to another country yet paying increments is hard for them by putting different logic. First layoffs of ~100 people in Oct-22 led to people managing the workload of laid-off staff as well. Then 2nd layoff in Aug-23 with 15-20 people and now I am hearing that people are being managed out by putting them on lower performance tiers and levels to push people for resignations to avoid 3rd layoff. Silent layoff seems new trend at Xendit. So hats off to HR for coming up this interesting yet legal way of forcing people out. Hence my comment Run as fast as you can, look for jobs elsewhere before you get laidoff for various reasons. Calling Family of Honey badgers is literally a joke in cultural value because family dont abondons you but Xendit will dump you at first opportunity because its about their survival without investment rounds and high cash burning rate.

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Cons

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