Rapid innovation with no process discipline - Software Engineer HeyGen Employee Review

1.0
Feb 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fast-moving environment and aggressive product ambition.

Cons

- Speed was worshiped while structure was ignored. - Features were rushed out while documentation became an afterthought. - Internal coordination regularly broke down. - Requirements shifted mid-development without warning. - Quality checks were squeezed to the breaking point. - Teams were forced into constant reaction mode instead of building sustainably, - Endless rework became the norm. - Timelines stayed unpredictable and unreliable. - Innovation was praised while a disciplined process was absent. - Scaling became painful, exhausting, and inefficient. - The relentless pace led to burnout instead of real progress.

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5.0
Jul 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fast paced, high ownership, meant for the ones who strive building the plane on the way down.

Cons

Not meant for you if you want work life balance.

5.0
Mar 21, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Lots of winning. - Hard feedback is always listened to, and a good number of times actually followed through and implemented. - No company is perfect, and there are always areas of improvement. But certainly those areas aren't the ones being mentioned here on glassdoor in the 'cons'. If you are a serious person interested in winning, you should actually take the 'cons' that people are complaining about here as signs of validation that HeyGen is doing something right. You should want to go somewhere brutally intense. You should want to go somewhere where things move so fast it can be hard to keep up. You should want to go somewhere where people are working 9/9/5 + weekends. Otherwise, there is no chance the team will win. If this is not you, that's ok too. There are tons of lifestyle jobs out there that are a better fit.

Cons

- Poor job of hiring in the past, as evidenced by some of the salty glassdoor reviews you can see below. We are improving in this area though. - I think some of the reviews here mentioning poor transparency around career growth is a valid point of feedback. But i'd also add that this is extremely team dependent and a middle management issue. Not an executive management issue. Just do your due diligence before joining.

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