It's not so glorious - Senior Software Engineer WHOOP Employee Review

2.0
Mar 7, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Really interesting product line to work with - Solving complex challenging and rewarding problems - Great place to level up your technical career

Cons

- Work life balance is joke, engineers are constantly grinding. Nights and weekends are normal hours for some. Some engineers are just workaholics. - Product for some reason thinks they control deadlines, so software has to crunch to make ends meet. This is also create a toxic relationship between product and engineering. - We keep rushing out software, and then are shocked when the things go wrong. - Mandatory Hybrid policy while most other companies are offering remote. Office is not easy to access location in city (Fenway) - Despite everyone giving it their all, the company itself is not performing well. Growth has been stagnant for almost 2 years. And two rounds of Layoffs. - The worst of all, is Whoop tried to acknowledge these problems last summer, but I see we are just repeating them over and over. - There are many features in the Whoop app that are abandon, and we never polish features, just jump to the next new shiny thing.

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WHOOP Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We're glad to hear you find the projects you're working on rewarding and challenging. We agree that WHOOP is a great place to level up your technical (or non-technical!) career. Concerning your constructive feedback, we're very sorry to hear this has been your experience. It seems you are a current employee, and it's important to us that we have an opportunity to respond to some of this feedback more constructively. Please contact hr@whoop.com so we can set up a private meeting in a safe, non-judgmental manner to discuss this further. Thank you, in advance, for your time, energy, and feedback.

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