Disappointing Trajectory - Hope Auctane gets back on track - Anonymous employee Auctane Employee Review

2.0
Aug 7, 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are truly a lot of wonderful people working at Auctane in every team. It's still a good place to work but right now we're in a major slump.

Cons

- New CPO launches personal attacks on her direct reports or sometimes others in large meetings and is jarring to witness - Palpable friction between CPO and other C levels, sure its entertaining but also just a disappointing reminder that we used to have a much better executive team that seemed to truly care about the business, customers, and employees. -CTO often does not add value or even know what he is talking about - Too many meetings that are completely unnecessary and forced. It's actually absurd. We need to wipe the slate clean like we used to. - Lay offs or restructuring every 6 months is par for the course here these days

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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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