Do not fall for it - Site Reliability Engineer X Employee Review

1.0
Jan 6, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone writes about the food. The food is good, but I'm told there has been some discussion of charging employees for it. If you're taking a job for the food, you probably are taking the job for the wrong reason, so ignore all mentions of good food. That's not your job. Apart from that, it's fun to work in a high-volume, high-speed environment.

Cons

Management has always been very weak, and apparently still is. There is no discernible "leadership" despite young folks with big egos and matching salaries assuming the mantle and embracing their titles. Sure, the returned CEO is saying "no" more, but he's too late. His ego and attitude were so off-putting when he arrived that exactly the people who should have stayed - those with opinions, and upset, about the company's failures to that point ... left or were shoved out in the grudge-layoffs of October 2015.

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5.0
Jun 11, 2025
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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
Recommend
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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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