Small start up solving big problems - Senior Software Engineer Loggly Employee Review

4.0
Aug 9, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Loggly is solving some very difficult and interesting problems when it comes to scalability and big data. It is still a small company so the organization is very flat. As an engineer, there's nothing to hold you back from coding as hard as you can all day long every day. The culture feels genuinely friendly and it's awesome personally knowing each and every employee. There are weekly company-wide 'hang-outs' that are really fun, i.e. a big happy hour where the C staff updates everyone on everything that's going on across the company. Tuesday is engineering-wide no meeting day and generally everyone works from home that day, which is a perk I don't know how I lived without before Loggly. Overall Loggly is a pretty great place to work that I look forward to going to every day.

Cons

Loggly is extremely lean, so there are many times when there simply are no where near enough people to get done all the things that desperately need being done. This 'leaness' also means that Loggly has fewer perks and benefits than your average SV tech company. Loggly could actually use a bit more engineering management, to be honest. Almost everyone reports directly to the CTO, which puts a huge strain on the whole engineering org that manifests as delayed releases, habitually rescheduled meetings, important work falling through the cracks, and a lack of accountability for individual engineers.

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5.0
Dec 11, 2017
Anonymous contractor
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Pros

People, support, direction, product, 1 WFH day

Cons

Location - on market street - so hard to get to unless you take public transportation

2.0
Aug 30, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The good people here are great and truly want to make a difference. Banding together to try to make a change made me some life long contacts beyond this business.

Cons

Some of leadership will lead the people trying to make a difference on just enough to let think it might happen, but then do whatever they want anyway, even if they've been told that direction may be harmful (to brand, culture, etc). This pattern was proven to me many times over, despite my efforts to make it better. There is an extreme dept silo issue here. At the end of the day, the people hired with dept expertise are usually over ruled. It is near impossible to get other depts to support yours for the greater good of the company. If you are a woman, good luck getting taken seriously - this issue stems multiple depts of leadership, and I've seen it happen personally to almost every female employee. When reported it is not taken seriously. Expect to get paid according to this bias as well.

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