Destroyed by PE - Cloud Engineer Auctane Employee Review

2.0
Aug 20, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- reasonable comp in Spain, but it's starting to lag behind - remote work (in Spain only)

Cons

- terrible C level management. They're totally out of touch with the rest of the company. - The CEO makes jokes or insentitive comments at the same time they're announcing layoffs of hundreds of employees at the all hands meetings. - CTO is nowhere to be seen while we're having terrible technical problems caused by them. Rude too. Organizes an AMA and refuses to answer a bunch of questions and says "he owes himself to the shareholders and nobody else". His only guide is "automate everything with AI". - layoffs every six months - company guided by private equity trying to squeeze the company to sell it quickly, but destroying the future of the company meanwhile - more and more unpaid extra work each time they fire people, haven't left the office on time for three weeks. - they're not honoring the "options" (they're not options, just funny money, but they pinky-promised it) they promised us. They said we'll be keeping them even if we left the company or were laid off (if it was in good terms). Nobody has kept them. - no, they're not laying off because they're losing money, it's because they probably bought the company for too much money and now they can't sell it.

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5.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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