Good overall but your mileage may vary - Anonymous employee SoundHound Employee Review

4.0
Dec 28, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Generally smart and respectful people. Interesting and challenging technology. Lots of places to solve hard problems and have impact if you get involved.

Cons

Management team is overwhelmingly hired and promoted based on technical skills rather than true leadership experience. This leads to some unfortunate unintended behaviors and many managers acting more like individual contributors than actual leaders. Based on recent Glassdoor reviews there are clearly some problem areas in the organization that need to be addressed, but those are generally isolated problems and not indicative of the company as a whole. Much of the value of the compensation package is dependent on the stock price, which has tanked in recent months. Vacation allowance and medical benefits are both subpar. Many of the managers are anti-process to a fault, which leads to confusing and inefficient workflows.

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5.0
Apr 2, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people and hard problems.

Cons

None that I remember from then.

3.0
Apr 13, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Small company tech perks; currently riding the momentum of AI excitement. There are some solid, intelligent managers especially on the engineering side that seek the good of their team members and protect them from politics. Flexible work and no meaningful return to office enforced

Cons

SoundHound used to be a place where excellence mattered over ego, where commitment to doing the right thing trumped politics. Where the goalpost was building great products with quality underlying technology. The goalposts have shifted, but it’s not clear to where. No longer does a movement toward building the best tech drive the team. Instead, a slew of acquisitions have made insecure politicking and delaying decisions the drivers to how the company clunks along from quarter to quarter. A lack of unity at the top trickles down to senior and middle management. It is no longer clear what the product priorities are and why, and there are too many VPs to count (and it’s unclear what being a VP/exec means - there is no minimum size of department or scope of responsibility to get that title, so it loses its credibility). Lots of talk and not a lot of action. They say the more someone talks about something, the less they are probably living it. When leaders talk about the importance of leadership, authenticity, and integrity, it often indicates they are not actually embodying those words.

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