Great Marketing - Typical Company - Senior Frontend Engineer BetterUp Employee Review

3.0
Feb 14, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, excellent pay, meaningful product (coaching), and the company will help you grow and find your work-life-balance. - You will always be learning something new based on new unique challenges - The product/company goals are always public and clearly defined for you to get behind (sometimes it changes but it's obvious). - Salary is great - Benefits are great - Unlimited PTO is real

Cons

Disorganized middle management, unrealistic reviews, understaffed for the challenges ahead, one product/contract away from the next layoff, and VC/Stakeholder driven (top down). - Understandably there are competing agendas across the different domains and it shows. You'll face challenges here of threading the needle. - Upward promotions are there but its very stagnant based on current staffing and the strict review structure - you have to over invest but that is a risk as it's no guarantee. - This is a very VC driven company with last minute product changes coming from the very top and with no input from the teams. This is a clear reflection of the CEO and it has led to numerous failed attempts at launching the "next big bet". - If you're an engineer you need to keep boundaries and stick to them otherwise they will use you to the last drop and put you away wet.

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5.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Pros

Amazing team Rewarding cross functional work Interesting tasks Learning opportunities Flexible work schedule

Cons

As this is a contractor role, there are no benefits

5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nearly 8 years in, and the work still pulls me forward. What keeps me at BetterUp is that the problems are genuinely hard and genuinely worth solving. I came from engineering, so I'm wired to care about infrastructure, not just features, and this is one of the rare places where you can build something foundational and actually see it move metrics, clear escalations, and unblock a whole go-to-market motion. The mission isn't decorative here. I can feel the thread between the work and the outcome. BetterUp also trusts you to figure things out across lanes. I've written SQL, prototyped with AI tools, facilitated workshops, and co-designed vendor strategy, all as a PM, because the culture doesn't penalize curiosity or reaching into adjacent territory. And honestly, some of my closest friendships came out of this place. The people I work with, on engineering, on cross-functional teams, and in peer mentorship, are people I genuinely learn from and, in some cases, people I can't imagine not having in my life. That combination of meaningful infrastructure work, real trust, and people who challenge you and become your people is not easy to find. The benefits span beyond general work-life-balance, if you're curious about something, there's always an open door to learn and contribute. As a woman in tech, I cherish the fact that our colleagues listen to women, and our insight is taken into account instead of just ignored. It's nice to feel safe at work, able to speak your mind freely.

Cons

If you want a boring job, this is not the place for you.

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