RealSelf Software Engineer reviews

4.2

86% would recommend to a friend

(10 total reviews)

Minou Clark

100% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

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10 reviews
2.0
Sep 14, 2017

Disconnection Central

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Pros

Most of the employees are very nice and quite skilled. The product is unique and there are no direct competitors. The office has some nice amenities.

Cons

Management is pretty poor, they don't always act on their values, so even if they truly agree with you your feedback might not manifest change. It seems like a lot of this is because of disagreement between the department heads. That misalignment bleeds down into all the projects the company takes on, or fails to take on. For engineers in particular, I caution you to accept an offer until the company re-focuses again. There are a lot of cool internal ideas but none are being acted on for the time being. Recently they've been on a streak of hiring back-end developers and forcing them to work on the front end. Unless you want to just any old job and to write hacky JQuery all day every day, the job will likely feel unfulfilling. Hopefully this changes when management realizes what's required to sustain a solid engineering team.

2.0
Sep 14, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunities to work with a variety of technologies. Coworkers were pretty cool for the most part. Snacks & great benefits. You can get away with putting minimal effort into your work. Company-wide, the office has great vibes and people are lovely to work with. Many are unhappy, but they are almost always courteous and kind.

Cons

Engineering management is not invested in the growth of their engineers. There is zero vision for the future of the codebase and engineers are encouraged to take shortcuts, write cruft, and never revisit it. If you take any pride in your craft as an engineer, stay away. High performers are belittled and not given the tools to deliver at a high bar. In the past few months many of the best engineers have quit.

3.0
Jul 17, 2017

Great startup

Recommend
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Pros

Tight knit culture. Lots of work to be done. So its a great place if you're looking to do some hand on coding.

Cons

Engineering management is pretty terrible. Its one thing to say that we write sub-optimal code ti ship things faster but completely another to take pride in writing really bad code.

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RealSelf Response
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You're so right in noting that much of what makes us great is how we work to still feel like a startup. The challenge with being an 11 year old, 170 person startup is that we need a balance of systems and structures that are supportive without being overly burdensome. That's a tricky balance to strike, particularly in such a quickly growing company. That said, we have finished developing and are about to roll out a 360 review process, because we know it's time. I'd love to chat with you as we do so to hear your thoughts on how to make it most useful. Coffee's on me! - Lauren, VP of People
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