The King of Quiet Firing - Anonymous employee Auctane Employee Review

1.0
Oct 6, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Worked with many great people across all subsidiaries

Cons

When Thoma Bravo acquired Stamps.com and its subsidiaries, the CEO eventually left, and leadership of the company transitioned to the CEO from one of the subsidiaries. Soon after that, you could only describe the environment as chaotic and unprofessional. Horrible communication, poor decisions leading to wasteful spending... I watched several colleagues in various departments (all from the parent company, Stamps) be essentially relegated to the "rooftop" (remember Big Head from the TV show Silicon Valley?). The current leadership team seems to think it's acceptable to treat people this way. Don't communicate honestly about anything, totally detach from your humanity, and just take away enough of people's work that you hope they get message and quit. If it had just happened to a few people, you might just let it go. Write it off as not really knowing the whole story, try to give the company the benefit of the doubt. But this is a common theme in many reviews for a reason.

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5.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

Amazing work culture (before merger), Warm leads, amazing leaders

Cons

High burn out position, merger is affecting moral, difficult to enjoy time off, constantly changing goal and complete compensation plan. Also career opportunities were slim

2.0
Apr 27, 2026
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Pros

The frontend engineering culture didn't exist before our team built it. Establishing modern stack practices (React, Vue, TypeScript) and bringing rigor to the frontend was genuinely rewarding work. Talented engineers and strong peer-level collaboration. Real technical ownership when projects actually moved forward. Decent benefits and remote flexibility until they started taking remote away.

Cons

Despite the company being profitable, there were layoffs nearly every quarter, which made it impossible to plan or feel stable. Leadership was consistently disorganized. Stakeholder alignment was a constant problem and decisions took far too long to land. A lot of projects never launched, not because of execution issues, but because leadership couldn't get the right people in the room or commit to a direction. Constant churn at the leadership and org level created whiplash on priorities.

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