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3.1

44% would recommend to a friend

(277 total reviews)

Joshua Reeves

49% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

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3.0
Sep 14, 2025

Changing Tides

Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is pretty competitive (in lieu of actual stock). Codebase is getting a little better to work with from all the modularity work, but there's still so far to go.

Cons

Change management is terrible - lots of extreme changes happening in a short amount of time, with little collaboration with affected people. There's also used to be a very empathetic culture, but leadership is very AI-minded now. There's also a dramatic shift to a "high-performance" culture where L4 team lead is now the terminal level (L2 is entry-level) and there's a huge focus on PR count.

3.0
Aug 4, 2025

Solid

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, casual but high performing feel, free (good) lunch, collaborative teams. pretty good stock incentives for top performers/ cross functional champions.

Cons

Culture felt very Bay Area, and I wasn't in the Bay area. Good not great comp/ benefits - stable and competitive per market standards, but fairly capped. Lot's of talk about a near-term IPO, no IPO.

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