Is Braze a good company to work for as a Software Developer?

Software Developer professionals working at Braze have rated their employer with 3.7 out of 5 stars in 17 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of Braze employees being 4.0 out of 5 stars. Search open Software Developer Jobs at Braze now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Software Developer interview questions at Braze .

Does Braze pay Software Developer employees well?

Software Developer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Braze with 3.5 out of 5 stars based on 17 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 5.6% worse than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Software Developer salaries at Braze.

How happy are Software Developer professionals working at Braze?

56% of Software Developer employees at Braze would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has decreased by 43% in the past 12 months. Software Developer professionals have also rated Braze with a 4.5 rating for work-life-balance, 4.1 rating for diversity and inclusion, 3.7 rating for culture and values and 4.0 rating for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Braze?

Account Executive (29) , Customer Success Manager (25) , Software Engineer (18) , Sales (15) , Marketing (13) , Business Development Representative (BDR) (10) , Manager (10) , Director (9) , Customer Success Manager (CSM) (8) , Senior Software Engineer (8) , Enterprise Account Executive (6) , Technical Account Manager (6) , Technical Support Specialist (6) , Account Manager (5) , Customer Onboarding Manager (5)

What are the pros of working at Braze according to real employee reviews?

"A great product and culture is at the core of employee satisfaction and I can see myself here for years to come." ((in 89 reviews)); "Great people to work with" ((in 79 reviews)); "life balance and benefits are great." ((in 39 reviews)); "Strong Leadership" ((in 27 reviews)); "Great work life balance as well!" ((in 25 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Braze according to real employee reviews?

"Low pay compared to similar companies with little to no financial recognition for Success given the large amount of work they do." ((in 16 reviews)); "Salary is competitive, but could be better" ((in 7 reviews)); "Some of the leadership changes over the past year have been questionable Very slow career progression Hard product to sell" ((in 6 reviews)); "Also work life balance is awful at the end of the month and end of quarter." ((in 5 reviews)); "Local management could also work on clearer communication and ensuring more consistent fairness in employee treatment." ((in 5 reviews))

Braze Software Developer reviews

3.7

56% would recommend to a friend

(17 total reviews)

Bill Magnuson

52% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.5

Work/Life balance

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.0

Career opportunities

3.7

Culture & values

3.5

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Senior management

Software Developer employees have rated Braze with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 17 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Braze is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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17 reviews

1.0

Aug 9, 2020

Horrible engineering culture, messy management in projects

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

lots funding while growing business

Cons

Huge growing pains on growing and expansion without good engineering culture Horrible project management with unrealistic priorities and timeline Terrible teamwork and throwing FE projects to BE devs

Braze Response

5y

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We are always looking to learn from our current and former employees to continue to make Braze a top company to work for. We are saddened to hear about your negative experience. Your feedback does come as a surprise as we have not had any engineers leave our organization recently. In the past year, we have had a tremendous focus on our engineering culture. Braze regularly surveys employees on a range of engagement and satisfaction issues, and we're proud to share that our engineering team enjoys above-company-average and industry-average scores in nearly all facets of the survey. We also just had our best and most productive Hack Day ever, an event we do on a quarterly basis. Lastly, we doubled-down on improving our frontend engineering experience earlier this year with the creation of a Dashboard Infrastructure team whose mission is to provide front-end tools that engineers and designers love using. We'd be happy to discuss the issues you encountered at your time at Braze, please feel free to reach out to whomever was your People Business Partner.

5.0

Oct 16, 2019

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

* Truly inspiring lunch vendors * Very transparent all hands, managers, and overall company culture * Took a while to become agile, but the engineering management took many employee's advice to heart and took it on. Very streamlined and easy to get things done. * You're given LOADS of time to work on personal projects through hackdays and general technical leadership

Cons

* A pretty high profile departure from our culture/outings leadership has left a noticeable void. The new folks are trying, but have some big shoes to fill! * Lots of new faces at the company but seemingly less ways to mingle with them. See the above point.

1.0

Jun 23, 2019

horrible engineer org

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

unlimited vacation time small teams, total ~40 devs

Cons

unrealistic OKRs, only ~50 achievable goals unhealthy eng. org that it doesn't focus on team work but individual work super difficult local dev with Ruby & sidekiq, hard for testing correctness team decision making not transparent to individuals, team lead decides not willing to take risks by certain team leads and blame individuals for small mistakes

Braze Response

7y

Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry that your experience at Braze fell below your expectations, since we work really hard to create a positive and transparent environment where all views are listened to and respected. We've gotten positive feedback from the majority of our employees, which is why we were winners of Inc. Magazine's Best Places to Work Award for 2019. In general, we are excited by the incredible leadership on the engineering team and our overall best-in-class product and team members and will continue to listen to all feedback so we can continue to improve our employee experience.

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