Good pay and benefits, bad leadership and engineering culture - Senior Software Engineer LTK Employee Review

3.0
Dec 12, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

If you are the kind of SWE who can punch the clock, don't mind constantly and needlessly changing requirements, and don't mind being blamed for late or incomplete delivery when product managers completely fail to present requirements in a timely or organized way, LTK is actually a pretty great place to work. The pay is good for a remote role, the twice a year onsites are usually pretty fun, and the benefits are competitive. I think people outside of engineering at this company love their jobs and intend to stay as long as possible.

Cons

If you are the kind of engineer who enjoys gathering requirements, building reliable software, and spending time improving systems instead of just shoveling hobbled-together features out the door day and night, this might not be an ideal workplace for you. Tech leadership insists on hiring ONLY senior and above engineers and still treats those highly qualified people as fools. Expect to have VPs and "distinguished engineers" completely supplant your tech designs and implementation plans despite knowing little to nothing about your problem space, only to back peddle after actually investigating the problem, rather than having open conversations and providing feedback. Prepare to be insulted and belittled by engineering VPs (especially the ones with Amazon on their resumes) and prepare to absolutely snap your neck keeping pace with the company's changes in direction. Unlucky enough to be working on a system that suddenly becomes critical to the business's 5-year-plan? Don't expect additional resources and do NOT expect merit pay increases. What LTK calls "merit increases" are effectively cost of living raises. Internal promotion appears non-existent.

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5.0
Jan 8, 2026
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Pros

Everyone is very welcoming and encouraging. Great benefits. Flexible schedule.

Cons

Don’t have any cons right now.

2.0
May 20, 2026
Anonymous contractor
Recommend
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Pros

- Used to be a really cool place with innovative, forward-thinking people everywhere. (A lot of the pros are "used" to be"] - There's room to get to know the people you're working with - Good brand recognition - Sometimes people have good ideas you can run with

Cons

Everything about the company now vs. 2-3 years ago is different and in a bad way. Everything is so very disjointed. Decisions are reactive and completely not thought through - they're also being made by tech bros who are simply not the target audience of this brand. They are out of touch and it's ripped the passion and potential right out of the business. Everyone feels like glorified taskhorses. No legit appreciation is given to anyone. All the things that used to make LTK great are no longer and, sadly, that probably means that ShopMy will absolutely run them into the ground. So much potential here which has been disappointing to watch disappear. Senior leadership ahs absolutely no idea what they are doing and they keep throwing things at the wall.

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