A bad place to be at the moment - Account Executive Figma Employee Review

3.0
Jun 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

They recently hired a new sales VP who gets it and isn't pretending like everything is great and happy when it's not. I hope she is successful at bringing change. Generally fun customers to work with who love the product.

Cons

I don’t know where to begin. So much is so wrong at Figma right now. There is no clear direction to how we attain our number and leadership has changed their narrative and focus so many times over the last year. The market is over saturated and our (few) customers in our books are so, so sick of being sold to. It’s nearly impossible to articulate the value that we bring to our customers because everything but the design product is half-baked or wildly over-priced. It’s impossible to sell here at the moment and career progression is not always based on merit and typically rewarded to those willing to play into politics.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- great culture - impactful team

Cons

- actually i enjoyed my time at Figma

2.0
Mar 20, 2026
Recommend
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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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