Very high turnover rate, and some positions are impossible to fill. Four people have been tried for a Backend Eng position in a particular team, all failures. The lead recruiter left after 5 months. They all leave for better jobs too, they are not sum bums who cannot hack it. A diversity hire left for Adobe after only 4 months. Their best employee in 2021, as recognized by Match Group, left just a week after becoming a director for an inferior title elsewhere.
Company policy is applied based on how connected you are to the people at the top. For example, lead recruiter decided to quit. They forced him to sign an agreement that stops him from working for a dating platform for at least a year. He had to wait an entire year to get his dream job at Hinge because of this. However, around the same exact time, one of the Engineering Managers decided to quit to move west with his partner. Because he was close friends with the other manager and the CEO at the time, he was able to go directly to Tinder without having to wait an entire year.
CEO has servants, not colleagues or employees. He constantly interrupts people during meetings. He has a top-to-bottom outlook on almost everything and whenever he speaks you can feel the excitement leaves the room and everyone is on their toes listening. He becomes a coward when someone from Match Group drops by. He is also very stiff about changing company policy. Even though on your first day he drops a DM to say friendly things, it's impossible to reach him without the proxy of your immediate boss. His direct reports are also all the people he's interacted with at other companies before. All white guys of a particular religion, too.
Promotions are based on how connected you are to the people at the top. In one promotion cycle I observed: manager to VP, and engineer to manager twice. There is no roadmap to how teams are assembled. If your boss likes you he (and it's always a he) will give you a run at the position that is vacant. Ask them to explain to you how can someone efficiently manage a team two weeks after joining the company as an engineer? The answer is because this engineer joined his buddy's company. They've scratched each other's backs for more than a decade, why stop now?
Remote unfriendly culture, the number of flexible days you get is based on how connected you are to the people at the top. The rule is simple: if everyone knows you, you can be permanently remote working from Rwanda for all they care. If you've been hired as a referral, you can have 3 days working from home. Otherwise, come to the office everyday because you need training - but you keep doing the same things as you'd do remotely anyway. I should emphasize that there is literally zero training available to new employees.
If your boss does not know you, he (and it's always a he) is not interested in getting to know you, or mentor you, either. Just do your job and if you seem like trouble, he will go on a mission to force you out. He has to. His buddy asked him to.
