CAUTION!! - Software Engineer Frontdoor Employee Review

2.0
Feb 19, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some really competent top-level managers – know tech, know how to manage; really good folks. Note the key word there: some. BTW, Rex is no longer CEO; he left in 2022.

Cons

Frontdoor got hammered by inflation and severe drop in home sales in 2022. When new CEO ousted SVP that was running combined Engineering + Product org in early 2023, made a whole lot of folks wonder. Rapidly turning into a pure sweat shop! crank it out!! Must have it done by the date!!! Doesn’t matter if the code is solid, scalable, etc. We can have endless fire drills to deal with issues! Better folks leaving, or being forced out. Too many idiot first-level managers who don’t know tech, how to manage individuals, or how to manage teams! Not to mention the psycho ones who go off on individual contributors not on their team(!)

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5.0
May 26, 2026
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Pros

Great WLB and everyone is collaborative and helpful

Cons

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3.0
May 31, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits Managers who are nice Company is doing well financially Coworkers are capable and generally very nice to work with

Cons

The development process is pretty similar to the one I used in my last job in 2012--nowhere close to CICD. Testing is done by QA, infra is owned by the platform team, BE is owned by BE team, FE is owned by FE team. There is a lot of bureaucracy and throwing things over the wall. Service architecture contains many layers of services. Most products lack automated tests and canaries. Production incident troubleshooting seems to involve casts of dozens. There are yearly layoffs and fairly frequent restructures. Benefits have been cut. I know that's very common these days in a tough job market, but the company has been posting record profits. There is a technical ladder, but once you advance beyond Sr Dev, there is little chance to code or be involved in day to day work.

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