Living life one layoff at a time - Software Engineer ChowNow Employee Review

1.0
Oct 27, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- People culture led to hiring colleagues that were great to work and socialize with even if just for a short time - good networking - Codebase wasn’t the worst but representative of what happens when you have a 100 person team that shrinks to 30 over the years. They need to reduce the number of services.

Cons

- Company can’t find Product Market Fit so constantly chasing revenue experiments like putting up obnoxious ads to diners - Hiring quality seems to have gone downhill due to the above, impacting hires from the very top all the way down - Went from a CEO passionate about the product to someone that apparently admitted preferring competitors apps - Leadership town halls imply a weak or missing strategy from the top and frankly, word salad explanations for anything critical - Did I mention layoffs? They seem to be about every 6 months, plus they’ve forced out over half the leadership team since the start of the year.

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5.0
Jun 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

i had an awesome run with great managers

Cons

hired too fast after covid and they had to lay off a bunch of people and restructure and my team and leadership were affected

1.0
May 15, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are good people and teams try their best despite the chaos. Remote work.

Cons

Poor executive leadership, constantly changing priorities and restructuring, lack of direction, low morale, reactive decision making, and executives who are out of touch with what the business actually needs.

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