Neighbor reviews

They don't have a work from home culture so if that's important to you then i would not recommend Neighbor

The health benefits they offer are a joke. They touted their plans as broad and great coverage for any situation, etc. but basically all the options are catastrophic plans. I worked 40+ hours each week, and each week during my performance review or 1 on 1, I was repeatedly told that I wasn't giving enough, that I needed to work more, that my effort was mediocre at best. I stayed up once until around 11pm working on a high-priority task, and in my review that week I was told "We expect to see more of that." The CEO, founders, CTO, and many engineers I worked with were not neurodivergent accommodating. I have ADHD, which means I need to take breaks every now and again to stay motivated and productive. Any time this happened it seemed like I was abandoning the team to go on vacation to the Bahamas for a month. They love to micromanage, and are not willing to adopt or even entertain any style of work other than head down coding for 8-12 hours/day. They also don't employ any Project Managers, which means engineers are expected to do their own user and market research, create their own roadmaps, epics, stories, tasks, etc. Oh but don't let that encroach on your 12 hours of coding every day! I was told when I was hired that project management is an unskilled position, so the engineers are better off doing that work. They might as well have said "janitors are unskilled, so we expect you to empty the garbages, clean the toilets, and vacuum each night." Just because something doesn't require a fancy degree doesn't mean it's a useless position. When I joined most of the company was working remote due to COVID, but as soon as everyone had the chance to get vaccinated they required everyone to come back to the office. For some industries, this make sense. For a software team, the only reason for this is to better micromanage the developers.