Went corporate in the worst way possible - Senior Software Developer Angi Employee Review

When I started at HomeAdvisor in 2015, it still very much felt like a startup. I was part of a wonderful team of developers who genuinely enjoyed each other's company and gelled well together. Needless to say, we were a highly effective and productive team. Fast forward a couple of years to when HomeAdvisor merged with Angie's List, taking the company public, and things started to change. First off, they didn't offer shares to the employees (despite vague promises to do so). Instead, they gave RSUs that vested in 3 years, and even then, only after a lot of pressure from the employees. Then they started dropping company events because "we had grown too much" and restricting team expenditure (goodbye team building activities). Slowly, they stopped promoting people internally and started hiring managers who were results-driven and not relationship-driven. Everything became about the money, and good product ideas that served the network of professionals were dismissed because they could impact profits. Good, smart people began to feel like they didn't belong anymore and started to leave. Eventually, HomeAdvisor became a company that would turn to mass layoffs as a part of its business strategy and long-term (20+ year) employees would be pushed out because they "couldn't keep up". (I also think there might have been a push to get rid of people instead of paying out those RSUs, but that is unfounded speculation). Basically, HomeAdvisor became a "me-first" kind of company and not a place that rewards loyalty, hard work, or compassion. I do not recommend working at HomeAdvisor/Angi.