Great and diverse team working on inspiring product - Software Engineer Figma Employee Review

5.0
Feb 10, 2017
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Pros

I've always loved tools and collaborating with designers, so Figma is kind of a product match made in heaven. For such a young product, it’s remarkably mature. The codebase is excellent, the release process is totally sane, fires are almost nonexistent. People work hard but on a normal (and family-friendly) schedule. The engineering team is diverse in gender (currently 30% female), race, age and experience. Projects are always impactful and engineers work collaboratively on the product, it’s not a place where you simply implement a feature blindly.

Cons

It’s a startup, so priorities can shift - it’s exciting when you are on board with them and are okay with change, but it can be hard if you are uncomfortable with instability. Founders are young but I've been impressed with their mature approach and resourcefulness.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

- great culture - impactful team

Cons

- actually i enjoyed my time at Figma

2.0
Mar 20, 2026
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Pros

* decent work life balance. I don't think there's a hustle culture per se * leadership is exceptionally smart and personable (but see issues on execution below) * humble eng team, few egos

Cons

My biggest shock when I joined this company was just how bad the execution on the product team actually is. I had assumed a company with a beloved product must have an excellent product org, but far from it! Seems like most of Figma's successes were accidental, or due to some early engineers' visionary work. Mainly, this company does not know how to ship AI products incrementally. Specifically the org that builds Figma AI is constantly stuck in the cycle of: * CEO gets scared by something on Twitter * Product engineers rush to build a demo for new features that'll "save the company" * Prototype gets rushed, customers are unhappy * Overpaid team of PhD researchers gets pulled in to hill climb on quality, but takes too long to make meaningful progress * Customers get even more angry * Product team adds(!) scope * The market has moved on to the next shiny AI thing * We scrap the project, or are asked to do the next, even bigger thing * ... and so on, ad infinitum, but no meaningful AI products ever ship. But hey, they pay pretty well!

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