Glacial! - Engineer OfferUp Employee Review

2.0
May 2, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It’s exciting to work at a company that’s come so far! They have a large and growing user base, and when I mention it to anybody they’ve either used it or at least heard of it. Maybe not quite the household name that Craigslist is, but not far off at least on the West coast.

Cons

Things move incredibly slow. No sense of urgency. Not a strong engineering culture. If you have an issue, such as for example incompetent coworkers making it so you spend most of your time fixing, reverting, undoing and having cardiac events every time you get a “wtf?” code review that’s insanely complex, careless, and built out of hacks-upon-hacks, where do you escalate to? There’s nowhere to escalate to.

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OfferUp Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. The evolution of OfferUp, especially forward progress on making the company a household name, has certainly been an exciting journey so far. A journey that experiences both mountains and valleys. Substantial growth, especially growth in people, comes with disruption; guiding a group to work together toward a common goal is paramount to the success of any organization. and can prove to be challenging at times. We continue to organize and align our teams to execute progress on key initiatives.

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