Stay away - Anonymous employee SharkNinja Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Beautiful office, good pay, free products, on and off site flexibility for salaried employees, worked with some great & funny people, just don’t think this place was for me.

Cons

Training was nonexistent. Was greeted on my first day then ghosted for 2 hours. My first few weeks basically consisted of me doing absolutely nothing, even when I tried inserting myself and asking if others needed help. It was either that or it would be a last minute overview/walkthrough of something, and I was expected to remember everything and take it on as my own, there was never an in-between or structured training experience. Also not to mention being handed off to someone different every day for "training" due to whoever was training me for the day would be OOO for the next week and would have to hand me over to someone else. I understand that cross-collabing is essential for certain projects across different departments, but never understood the point of useless back-to-back meetings with completely different branches/brands of the company that had nothing to do with what we were doing. I was constantly added to meetings with no context during my first couple of weeks, expected to know things I was never briefed on. So much cross function often led to confusion. Managers themselves always asking what the purpose of every meeting was. Seems like everyone is lost. At the same time, they are overly structured. Have to keep an excel sheet for every single thing you do. It feels like we had to spend so much time perfecting every part of an excel sheet for something, that there would would little to no action/time left towards completing the actual project or task. Unnecessary communication outside of working hours. Office is full of gossipers and people who constantly disrespect or lash out on people on a personal level over work matters, making it a very dreadful and negative environment. They pride themselves on this concept of being unrealistically fast paced, leading to decisions being made based more on speed than anything else. So even if it's the wrong decision, they'll go with it, resulting in more work for everyone in the end. Managers let you sink or swim by never giving feedback or guidance on work tasks in the first place, just showing past work of theirs and saying “make it like this”…but then once you complete something, everything is wrong and you have to redo it. I also feel like there's little room for making real connections or growing between all the different teams and people you have to deal with instead of getting to focus within your own department and role first. Had to leave this place after being diagnosed with severe anxiety and experiencing physical health problems from the stress/chaos. Stay away if you can.

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5.0
May 4, 2026
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Pros

Impactful work from Day 1 and a great learning experience

Cons

If you are not in the headquarter office, you may miss out on some networking opportunities but the early talent team do their best in providing as many opportunities as possible.

1.0
May 26, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some good peers that make the days slightly bearable with the group chat of how ridiculous and hellish the place is

Cons

The speed and agility are just code names for ceo paranoia and inability to make and stick to decisions. Toxic environment perpetuated by the lifers. Entire departments are pit against each other. A culture of public shaming and blaming with a side of discrimination and misogyny. It is absolute chaos and makes you regress professionally because after a while all you do is “yes” the ceo and do things the Shark way which is essentially the Mark way and 0% what other orgs would do or what you learned about/experienced previously. Micromanaging starts from the very top. Product issues daily. People cry daily. Ridiculously high turnover. So much bullying and favoritism. Extremely top heavy and lots of VPs+ to attend meetings but not enough people to actually work. Those in leadership are also unprofessional and liabilities. No work life balance. No respect. Backstabby. Even the meeting are aggressive and called hacks, red teams, sledge hammer approach etc. The best way to be successful here is to be a super caffeinated visible sycophant that is fine with no life outside of work. People note the high comp but it’s not worth it and is not enough compared to the hours actually worked and all the stress and anxiety that comes with it. The moral and mental health here are the lowest I’ve ever seen.

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