Toxic engineering management and money problems - Software Engineer Simon AI Employee Review

1.0
May 26, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The remainder of engineering team is still quite strong.

Cons

Simon lost about 40% of engineers over the last 10 months. Combination of below market pay (series D did not materialize) and increasingly toxic engineering management. The management culture on the engineering team has gotten steadily worse over the last year. Encountered situations where managers claimed credits for projects they haven't contributed to and bad mouthed former employees on reference checks. Did not use to be like this.

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Simon AI Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We agree-- we have a very capable, growing, and strong engineering team. We are constantly reviewing market rates and, at key points of our promo/comp cycles throughout the year, we are and have adjusted compensation for those who qualify. We have not raised Series D yet, so this is false information.

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