Toxic - stay away - Anonymous employee Eight Sleep Employee Review

1.0
Nov 12, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Coworkers are smart, friendly and hard working.

Cons

Leadership is toxic and incompetent. They often assign work without providing context, direction, or clarity. After delivering the work, you may be criticized harshly without any actionable feedback or explanation. That’s because they don’t know what they want, they just like to treat people poorly. The leadership style is consistently disrespectful. Founders frequently speak to employees in a demeaning, parental, or punitive tone rather than demonstrating real leadership, support, or professionalism. The working hours are extremely demanding, and you are expected to be available essentially 24/7, including weekends. While hard work can be fulfilling, there is absolutely no respect for personal time, PTO, urgent personal situations, or basic boundaries. This environment leads even high performing employees to burnout. Employees are not genuinely valued. People are treated as resources rather than humans, and high performance is rarely recognized or rewarded. Appreciation is absent. Even when teams go above and beyond, leadership does not express gratitude, but criticism is delivered quickly and loudly. The company promotes the idea that employees get significant ownership, but in reality decision-making is centralized. Even the smallest choices must be approved by the CEO, which makes the “high responsibility” narrative largely fictional. The culture is not customer-centric. Product decisions are driven by the CEO’s personal preferences rather than by customer insights, data, or user needs.

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5.0
May 7, 2026
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Pros

- The team is incredibly smart, hard working, and collaborative. - The product works and the vision of the company is inspiring. - You will get to work on really interesting problems and have more ownership than you probably should.

Cons

The polarized reviews here makes sense. The culture is intense and not for everyone. It's like a sports team that wants to be the best. Expectations and accountability are high, especially from Matteo (CEO). The two traits I see that separate people who love this place versus who don't: 1. People who thrive don't take criticism personally and use it to improve. Those who struggle perceive it as a personal attack ("I got yelled at"). 2. Ability to deliver - if you are great at what you do, this place is fun because you get lots of responsibility and autonomy. But if you struggle to deliver, I can see it feeling overwhelming and oppressive.

5.0
Mar 18, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Eight Sleep is one of the few places where you can actually feel the impact of your work in real time. The company moves fast — ideas go from concept to production in days or weeks, not quarters. If you’re someone who likes building, shipping, and iterating quickly, this environment is incredibly energizing. There’s a strong culture of ownership. You’re not boxed into a narrow role — especially in product or BizOps, you end up touching everything: product, operations, CX, growth, and even hardware decisions. This makes it an amazing place to learn quickly and develop a very holistic understanding of how a company operates and how decisions are made. Leadership sets a high bar. Expectations are intense, but it pushes you to think sharper, move faster, and operate at a higher level than you might elsewhere. When things are working, the team can execute at a very high level. Also — the product is genuinely compelling. Sleep is a problem people really care about, and when the product works well, users love it. That makes the work feel meaningful.

Cons

The bar is high, but support structures (process, documentation, tooling) are still catching up in some areas. You often have to build the system while running it. The cool thing is you are the one building it so you really learn how to build from the ground up.

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