Love the work and the people - Senior Software Engineer Figma Employee Review

5.0
Jun 6, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great culture with collaboration and respect, amazing product, good leadership, lots of optimism for the future. I used to dread going to work in my past companies on Monday morning. At Figma, I find the projects and team mates interesting and want to go and work in the morning. Figma is also fully remote, which gives me more time to spend with family compared to being at the road in the Bay Area traffic. Coming from FANG companies, I found work place politics to be close to zero. Very high percentage of people try to do what is right for Figma, which is very refreshing.

Cons

No major complaints at all. When we see growing pains, leadership is generally quick to address them. Even though company is fully remote, if you want face time with others, the Hubs are not very close. For instance, in Bay Area, I have to commute to SF to see team mates. Luckily I do it only once or twice a month, which works fine. Would love to see more Hubs in the East Bay.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- great culture - impactful team

Cons

- actually i enjoyed my time at Figma

2.0
Mar 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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