Growing pains - Anonymous employee Honey Employee Review

5.0
Apr 4, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company is growing incredibly fast. New people are starting every week and there are some incredible talents at the company. You get a lot of responsibility very quickly, if you're good. Management is transitioning from being purely focused on building products to building out the org. There are obviously growing pains but that's why I joined a startup.

Cons

The company has been hiring fast but not firing fast. The culture is generally very friendly and it has led to some underperformers hanging around forever. The company recently started seriously measuring performance and it has led to numerous employee exits. It's a pity to see them publicly trash the company that has treated them so well.

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5.0
Sep 25, 2025
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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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