Little bit of a clown show - Senior Software Engineer Checkr Employee Review

1.0
May 22, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- immediate coworkers and management was good. Decent pay, but careful for pushing for too much. Was repeatedly told I was at the top of the pay band for senior and shouldn't expect much in terms of raises. Feels like that put a target on my back as someone who they could cut to save a lot of salary.

Cons

Fired 32% of their employees and then is posting jobs to fill engineering positions. Seems like if there was any forethought they would've fired less and moved people into those roles. Or perhaps people decided to leave after having watched Checkr reduce their benefits and and change their remote friendly working policies. Not much room to grow career wise unless it is in responsibilities and work load but not title and pay. Shifts in focus, priorities and reorganization of teams take place frequently. You will get a lower annual review if you work on things that do not directly generate revenue, even though your engineering and product managers tell you what they want you working on and you don't have much choice which team/focus you are on. In the end no matter how much you contribute and how good of a worker you are, you are entirely reliant on C-staff to not mismanage the company resulting in reductions in the workforce. Which unfortunately they have done repeatedly!!

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5.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

Great work life balance and company culture

Cons

Growth opportunities are limited now.

2.0
Jun 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great insurance. Learning Stipends, etc

Cons

-Senior leadership only cares about what is new and shiny. -They treat AI like a religion. Forcing everyone to use AI for everything as though we don't realize that the end goal is to eliminate our roles - All Hands Meetings every month where Senior Leadership pats themselves on the back while ignoring any existing issues. - Support is treated like a necessary evil instead of a fundamental part of doing business. Would prefer to ship the roles overseas or replace with AI - Extremely high attrition for Senior Leadership.

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