Carpe Data reviews

3.5

69% would recommend to a friend

(16 total reviews)
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62% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

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2.0
Jul 25, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company is somewhat generous with employees, and they do not play with your salary (which is something good for Portugal companies)

Cons

The company is in constant financial trouble, and layoffs have become a yearly routine. Senior engineers and the CTO have no real engineering competence — they spend more time playing politics and sucking up to management than actually solving problems or guiding the team. The CTO is as useful as a brick, offering zero technical leadership. The CEO is completely delusional and refuses to face the reality that the product is failing. Engineers are treated like disposable resources with no influence over the product, while people with absolutely no understanding of the technology are given full authority to make critical decisions. This toxic structure leads to chaotic priorities and a steady degradation of the product. The company fundamentally does not respect its engineers — your input won’t matter, your expertise will be ignored, and your job will never feel secure.

4.0
Mar 2, 2025

overall pretty good experience for me

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- free snacks, free lunch once a week - there are a few really smart and nice people you get to work with and learn from

Cons

- pay is low compare to the living cost in SB

1.0
Aug 25, 2024

Tough working for Carpe

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free snacks and some free lunches.

Cons

A lot of empty promises for career advancement in a startup were made getting you to work hard for low pay. This lead to a lot of unhappy employees when fair-market pay was not actually ever an option. Probably best to avoid.

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