Where do I begin.....
* Extremely toxic company culture - this is the main reason I left the company
* An excessively high number of people in there 20s and 30s with Director and VP titles.....why is this? Because the company is a revolving door. Most people leave within 2 years (many within their first year)....therefore if you can last 3-5 years at SharkNinja you will likely become a Manager, Director, or VP by default (since you will be one of the most senior people at the company).
* Upper management are bullies - I participated in multiple meetings where management level people attacked less-senior employees. Upper management is more concerned with impressing their superiors than actually nurturing their reports and trying to develop less senior employees.
* Resistant to new ideas and change - When you ask "why does SharkNinja do it this way?" you will hear common responses such as "this is just how we do things here" or "I am not sure, that's just how things work here"
* Meeting - You will likely be in 6+ meetings a day (on average). Typical meetings have 15-20 people in them (where 2-3 people do 80% of the talking). A lot a talking about doing work and not actually doing work.
* No innovation - All of SharkNinja products are designs stolen from other companies that put all of the time/money/resources to actually developing an innovative product. Does the Shark Robot vac look familiar (*cough iRobot)? When "designing" a new product SharkNinja just steals the designs from existing products (literally reverse engineering their product) and slaps their own logo on it. SharkNinja has built a business off of not needing to spend time on R&D and just copying other products.
* Borderline sexism - Very much a "bro" environment (especially in engineering). I personally saw multiple female engineers (one of which was an amazing engineering manager) leave the company during my short time at SharkNinja. Women are generally not respected here.
* No career development - Most people are running around with their heads cut off with little to no clear direction. Everything at SharkNinja is about speed, and therefore there is very little time to learn new skills that will actually develop your personal skills and growth. Your manager will not be able to help with career development because they are probably ~2-3 years older than you and never received any career development themselves.
*Cheap/low quality products - Products development is on a strict 1 year timeline (regardless of the product complexity). Therefore product quality significantly takes an negative impact because of lack of time to properly design the products. SharkNinja is okay shipping products to customers with known issues (just to meet the highly aggressive deadlines which are not supported by actual engineering development timing).
*No real design work - As an employee at SharkNinja it is hard not to feel bad for the China engineering team. The CN engineering team is the backbone of the company doing 90% of the actual work. The US team essentially demands things from the CN team with unreasonable expectations. Therefore US "engineers" essentially transform into middle-men between US upper management and the CN team.
On the surface SharkNinja looks like a decent job opportunity, but please do not ignore all of the negative Glassdoor reviews (that's unfortunately what I did when I accepted my position). Do yourself a favor and find a different place to work....seriously, don't waste your time at SharkNinja.
