Meetings Overload - Software Engineer Toast Inc Employee Review

3.0
Apr 7, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-remote -generally nice and collaborative coworkers -benefits and comp if you joined at a low stock price.

Cons

-Crazy amount of meetings (20+ hours/week) to result in no decisions/progress. More often than not, there are times when you have 3-4 hours of back to back to back meetings and no time to take a dump or do actual work. Then if you are in an org that needs to interface with overseas teams, expect meetings at night from 8pm-10pm. This means no down time to watch TV, go out for date nights, putting your kid to sleep. I would not recommend to join such a team unless you are single or just really don’t like your family. -general disorganization where you need to monitor random channels with hundreds of people who shoot out random questions into the void. Requirements and design decisions change on a whim. -decisions by committee where everyone can provide different opinions and no one is there to make a final consensus.

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Toast Inc Response
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Although this review was difficult to read, we're grateful for your feedback. Since your review indicates that you're a current employee, we hope that we can discuss your concerns further and improve your experience. Please reach out to your People Success Partner so that we can best support you.

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Fantastic company culture and excellent, full support from a highly collaborative cross-functional team that genuinely wants to see enterprise deals succeed. Overall, it is well inclusive and supportive company culture.

Cons

Rapidly changing product landscape can occasionally make cross-functional alignment a bit complex.

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Toast Inc Response
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We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts! It's fantastic to know that you’re enjoying your time at Toast. We're proud to have Toasters like you driving our success!
4.0
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Pros

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-Numerous Sales teams that share the same markets/TAMs. Customers and prospects get exhausted of outreach - Since going public, the goal posts keep moving forward even if 60% of the org hit goal. -A number of core leaders have left, new ones still learning the ropes which was hindering the orgs and teams

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