Cautiously optimistic with the recent focus - Engineering Manager Localytics Employee Review

5.0
Dec 9, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The engineering management team genuinely cares about the team and wants to do the right thing for their people. They have a lot of great processes in place to help grow and manage the team, such as regular 1:1s and 360 Reviews. There is a great culture of learning; when things go wrong, they genuinely want to fix it and prevent reoccurance rather than blame. There are a lot of smart people there with opportunities to learn from. They have a lot of great technology they are using in many places throughout the product. Definitely a great way to level up your skills. There is currently a laser focus on getting the next set of features out, which provides clarity and a proper sense of mission. This is relatively new, and hopefully will continue (see cons).

Cons

There is a lot of product surface area for a smaller team to cover. There has been progress made and the recent focus has helped, but more needs to be done. Hard choices have been made, and I suspect a few more will need to, product-wise. In the past, there was a tendency to change technology slower than possibly ideal for a company this size.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jan 22, 2016
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Pros

+ Generally friendly workplace, can be a little clique-y on some teams, but overall, people here are easy to get along with. + Can't speak to the other departments, but engineering hires very well. Coworkers are all very smart, capable people who are bullish on improvements, care deeply about their craft, and don't settle for stupid hacks. + The work is both challenging and interesting. + People actually care about tech debt here. + The work environment is relaxing and offers generous vacation time (untracked) and work from home policies. + Management encourages a culture of openness and transparency that while not perfect, at least makes you feel comfortable voicing your opinion. Whether anything comes out of that probably varies by manager, but my managers are all good folk so I don't worry about that =).

Cons

- If you work here you gotta be capable of giving yourself direction and making/clarifying important decisions on your own because management sometimes drops the ball by throwing out half finished requirements and expects you to fill in the blanks. I'm probably making it sound worse than it actually is, but regardless you gotta be a go-getter. - There is a major lack of communication between departments and this hurts product focus among other things and is pretty much the reason for the consistent annoyance of direction and scope changes for feature work and why the product can't always get the improvements it needs. - No matching 401K. - Free lunch is provided on Tuesdays, not Fridays. I know the complaint is petty, but I can't get over it.

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