Great place for meaningful work - Staff Software Engineer Dutchie Employee Review

4.0
Mar 21, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Amazing people who are open and welcoming of all. - Great investment in DEI and people support. - Promising business in an exciting industry. - Technically challenging and meaningful work. - Very meaningful investment in philanthropy and political activism. - Highly collaborative engineering team. - Great communication from senior leadership. - Fair equity sharing amongst staff.

Cons

- Pre-IPO startup with mid-tier comp. Might be lower than folks can get at more prestigious companies. Large part of comp will be equity. - Still developing engineering processes that too often fallback to industry worst practices (off hours work, lots of JIRA). - A bit top heavy, which doesn't leave room for career advancement for some.

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Dutchie Response
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Thanks for the review! We take recognition and career advancement seriously. Dutchie provides equitable and competitive compensation to attract, retain, and reward high-performing employees. We tie achievement of performance goals to total rewards, including cash compensation, equity, benefits, skills development, and career progression opportunities. We are perpetually committed to Diversity & Inclusion efforts, and have invested in company wide training on a quarterly basis that covers topics like unconscious bias and allyship. We are also very grateful for our Employee Resource Groups, which drive belonging and community at Dutchie, and have helped shape the culture we enjoy today.

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5.0
Dec 17, 2025
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Pros

Fun place to work, interesting field and nice new tech stack, great coworkers, leadership is not half bad, most diverse workplace I've ever been in.

Cons

The work life balance can be great at times and bad at others. It is very team dependent though. Your requirements shift quickly. Obsessed with AI and optimization.

1.0
Apr 16, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

From what I heard, it used to be a phenomenal culture, but I joined just a week or two after the first major round of layoffs. The hostile company takeover was soon to follow then many rounds of layoffs to come.

Cons

A couple of very large, public layoffs, but to later avoid press - the rest were weekly, but small enough to avoid public notice which meant they were never acknowledged even within the company. Working weekends and taking calls to your personal cell number at night for extra work is smiled upon. Company at a complete loss of direction and there seems to be no desire for actual data or for things to work. It's like they want more on paper to show investors or something - it's actually unbelievable how little the company now does while completely overworking everyone.

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