Disappointed with company choices and direction - Solutions Engineer Toast Inc Employee Review

2.0
Jun 20, 2020
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Pros

The people you worked with become family. Amazing, talented, and smart contributors with a shared goal. Unlimited PTO was nice but pretty standard.

Cons

Company was heavily affected by the Covid-19 crisis and decisions had to be made to cut payroll. While I don't fault Toast for making these tough choices to survive, the decisions that were made on who goes and who stays made absolutely no sense. It was pretty clear that the priority was to lower payroll across the board regardless of tenure history, and loyalty to the company. People who have been with Toast since the beginning were tossed aside to make way for contributors who were less experienced and therefore less expensive. They really just didn't care for the people that got the company to where it is now, extremely disappointing to see.

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Toast Inc Response
6y
Thanks for leaving your feedback. The impact of the COVID-19 crisis, caused us to make several very tough decisions earlier this year. Unfortunately, the decisions to reduce our headcount impacted Toasters of all levels and tenure. We always have been and continue to be a company extremely dedicated to our people, past and present. Please let me know if there is anything I or the team can do to help better support you and the other alumni through this difficult time. - Jonathan Vassil, SVP/GM , SMB

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5.0
May 28, 2026
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Pros

Flexible hybrid work, great culture working for the company, benefits and pay is pretty good as well

Cons

Can feel hard to move within the company as opportunities don't open up often for specialist to move upwards

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Toast Inc Response
4w
We appreciate you sharing a candid review with us. We’re delighted that the culture and benefits are resonating with you. We'd recommend reaching out to your People Success Partner to discuss your feedback further.
2.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

The benefits and health insurance are amazing and the company culture as a whole is very positive. It was a pleasure to work with almost everyone I met in my time there.

Cons

Lower management, especially for care teams, deeply lacks integrity. Retaliatory practices, lack of communication, and failure to adhere to their own policies are very common behavior depending on who your manager is. The inconsistencies across what is expected from leadership are profound and it is disappointing how much this can derail your career trajectory at Toast. It’s also very difficult to help customers at times, as Toast is notorious for launching new products at customers and providing little to no support to agents that are then expected to troubleshoot using sparse or nonexistent resources and absolutely no training. Cross-collaboration with teams that occasionally intersect is also very challenging, particularly Sales/Onboarding and Care. There were many instances where sales and onboarding specialists set customers up with false expectations of the product, which leaves care teams to deal with the aftermath.

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