Team was great, execs not so much - Senior Software Developer Auctane Employee Review

3.0
Jun 2, 2023
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Pros

Excellent team of devs, not a single ego on board. Everyone was really knowledgeable. Immediate supervisor was flexible and laid back, but great at providing direction when needed. Interview was a real interview and not a leetcode session. CICD process was about as streamlined as you can get. Workload was reasonable.

Cons

Company changes hands more than I change clothes. I was working for a company acquired by Auctane. When I started, I think the acquisition had just finished up. By the time I left not even 2 years later, they'd already been acquired. And that was a pattern. No stability whatsoever, and you can't count on your stock options ever vesting or being worth anything. Executive management is completely out of touch and insisted if people didn't want to commute to come back into the office eventually, they should have just lived closer. Again, this is in Austin. No one on my team could afford a decent house IN Austin with a family. There were tidbits here and there like that that showed upper management had no concept of the average employee's experience or how far their pay would go. The instability and fact that execs were out of touch played a significant role in my decision to leave.

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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
Recommend
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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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