Very Pretty Packaging With An Empty Box - Anonymous employee X Employee Review

2.0
Oct 18, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

*Great benefits/perks - free food/snacks, great equipment given to you on day one (brand new MacBook Pro), beautiful new office, "unlimited vacation time", comp top-notch gym memberships, yoga classes at headquarters, game room, events (movie screenings, etc) *Open flow of information from company leads at Local Tea Time regarding product developments and future of the company *Intelligent, innovative and some of the top talent in the industry *Unlimited/Flexible Vacation Policy

Cons

*Little to no training or investment in "people" *Lack of internal tools to progress/succeed in your role (short term) and career (long term) *Weak management with little to no management experience (lots of first time managers) *Passive agressive political environment ...Watch your back from day 1! *Sink or swim - new recruits are not set up for success *Lack of transparency within smaller teams creating a disconnect between upper management and the employees doing the day-to-day grunt work keeping the business afloat *Remote offices are extremely disconnected - Senior Management has not made it an initiative to build a positive culture outside of the San Francisco Headquarters *Slow to acknowledge and dig deep into issues affecting teams productivity and efficiecy

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5.0
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Pros

great community for web engineers. lots of mentorship available sessions to knowledge share really helped with growth

Cons

lots of projects do not make it to production lots of hoops before projects have a chance to be developed or make it hopefully to production

4.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

- Good salary - High Ownership - Interesting Work - Get to learn more broadly of how things work at scale compared to other global social media companies - Equity Growth Overall I have gotten to take on really interesting work here and am alongside colleagues I respect and appreciate. Equity has appreciated significantly.

Cons

- Constant Layoffs/poor attrition rates - Understaffed - Lack of organization/communication from leadership

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