Mediocre Management - Anonymous employee Honey Employee Review

1.0
Apr 4, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Typical startup perks: catered lunches, activities like happy hours and outings, and usually your co-workers are pretty cool. Good place to land for a while before you get a better job.

Cons

Management's hiring/promotion strategy is based around nepotism and incompetence is rewarded. You'll rise through the ranks if you're a "yes man" or a micromanager. Company values are meaningless fluff. If you raise concerns or objections then management acts like you're unable to keep up with a so-called "hyper-growth" startup. Check out reviews of the iOS app if you want to see how product is shipped at this company -- it's a joke.

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5.0
Sep 25, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Before the acquisition by PayPal, Honey was the best employer I ever had. Good benefits, good perks, diverse and supportive working environment, interesting and challenging work, amazing coworkers.

Cons

Acquisition by PayPal was basically the end of the party, they systematically erased any remnants of the company culture and the entire mission became focused on nothing but the quarterly returns for investers. PayPal had no idea what to do with Honey's technology or incredibly valuable brand and it just withered.

4.0
Sep 3, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

PREVIOUSLY... - Smart people, great culture, true friendships and learning opportunities. - Really cool product. - Many women in tech. - Good work life balance. Acquisition by PayPal dramatically slowed things down and changed the culture though

Cons

After acquisition by PayPal, priorities changed and resulted in disagreements by old leadership/teammates. Some good engineering leaders were replaced with uncaring and nontechnical ones. Most of the best engineers left. It's boring/slow, but not a terrible place to work at.

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