Navan Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.2

55% would recommend to a friend

(23 total reviews)
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Ariel Cohen

75% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Navan with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 23 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Navan is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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23 reviews
5.0
Nov 6, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits are great. Great peoples, great colleagues and the team is amazing. Awesome CTO

Cons

Some legacy code and projects.

4.0
Nov 5, 2025

Great company bad culture

Recommend
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Pros

Most coworkers are fun, talented, and really help the company grow! Plus, you get to work with a product that has huge traffic and incredible exposure.

Cons

Sr. Leadership are in continue power war and a lot of ego is goin' on. They tend to protect what they're doing, even if it might not be the best for the company. People are scared of reflect the truth as they know they will be blocked and shut down.

1.0
Nov 5, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Honestly? the only one is that there are lots of dogs. The pay is decent - on par (and a little bit lower) than other decent public Israeli companies. There are no raises, however, so that's the case only for the first year.

Cons

Let me begin with the fact that I personally don't know a single happy employee in the Israeli site. I'm not even joking. I've never seen such a churn rate. Its a known joke in the company - you don't know who is gonna disappear next. Interpersonal cons: * Absolute and complete toxic management. Choose any toxic aspect you want and its there! micromanagement, endless hours and no work life balance, arrogance, gaslighting and whatnot. * There's no celebrating success - other companies have weekly happy hours which are more fancy than this company's IPO celebration. * You can't really connect to anyone because they're always leaving. * The company announced they'll embrace yearly layoffs like they do in Amazon, so prepare for that! Technical cons: * The majority of the company's codebase is in a single enormous repository that's impossible to maintain or work with. * Security procedures cause developer productivity to be reduced to absolute zero. You can't do anything without endless approvals and engineers knowingly skip good practices to overcome this. * Lots of core functionality is written in an extremely fragile and low quality code. * Endless politics which you can't avoid, because you'll have to deal with unbearable developers with political power to do your job. * Teams scattered over the world make you work with other time zones. * The extreme churn causes sources of knowledge to leave, leaving you with piles of code to deal with yourself.

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