Owner.com Sr. Software Engineer reviews

Where to start? First off, don't trust any of the reviews here. New hires are *strongly* encouraged to leave a review within their first month. The culture is rotten from the top down. The obsession over the company values is like something out of a cult. This place is a whirlpool of constantly shifting priorities based on the whims of the exec team. The baseline expectation for employees is 50-60 hours a week. The latest are sweeping AI mandates where the expectation is that all devs increase "velocity" by 5-10x, ie a thinly veiled overtime mandate. Insane deadlines are thrown around to generate pressure to perform. Performance reviews are a farce. This is one of the most political workplaces I have ever had the misfortune to operate in. Devs need to spend an inordinate amount of time marketing themselves internally. EM's do not represent or defend their teams. Work itself is interesting at times, but things are also largely disorganized, poorly defined, and often have conflicting buy-in from execs. Priorities and staffing shift so often to the detriment of actually delivering anything, at least with any semblance of work life balance.

Typical fast-moving-company trade-offs: some processes are still maturing and cross-time-zone coordination can take a bit of effort. Nothing that’s unusual for a high-growth environment, and the team is quick to improve things.