Snap reviews

3.3

45% would recommend to a friend

(1,219 total reviews)
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Evan Spiegel

23% approve of CEO

18% positive business outlook

Snap has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,219 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Snap employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Feb 13, 2018

The worst place to work

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Snap is hands down the worst company I have ever been a part of in my entire career. There is no support and it’s a total sink or swim type environment. Employees are overly competitive with peers and it’s truly an environment where you need to fend for yourself completely. Although you will get to work with a lot of super smart people, they are mostly entitled, arrogant and egotistical. This type of behavior among employees is unfortunately very common. There’s a HUGE lack of female leadership which is always alarming. It’s truly a men’s club at the executive level where everyone is trying to get in, and will stab anyone in the back to do so. It’s a fear based operation that leaves employees being in a constant state of uncomfortableness and stress. The one real pro of working here is, as i mentioned above, is there are a lot of super smart people here that are visionary for what the future holds in terms of how communication and mobile advertising are evolving.

Cons

Working here is actually like being a part of a terrible cult where you’re expected to give your entire life to working for this operation. Really think twice before joining and especially if you have to relocate to the LA area.

2.0
Jul 8, 2018

Rest and vest, there is no reason not to do otherwise

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Pros

- some good people are still left - lots of people who want to move quickly - free food (with very limited hours for breakfast and dinner) - meal card program... oh wait, that got killed for Venice/Santa Monica employees... - fun summer and new years party's - engineering pay competitive with market

Cons

- the amount of backstabbing here is crazy. PMs and engineering leads sniping at each other, etc. - executives are totally lost. Only 2 of them have leadership experience elsewhere. - everyone claims that Evan or Bobby is championing their personal pet projects/agendas - secrecy secrecy secrecy - everyone else outside of engineering not so competitive pay - HR is a joke and they still don't know how to manage performance outside of hiring expensive consultants to tell them what to do - layoffs are shrouded in secrecy even from managers - terrible backloaded vesting for those pre-Jan 15 2018

1.0
Mar 9, 2018
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Pros

Some really smart co-workers (who got cut in a brutal layoff ), and there is always something to learn from them. Free food ( less and less offered every day )

Cons

Lipstick on a pig, looks fine on the surface, but lots of politics underneath. Especially in very large teams where 20 people might report to one manager. Expect zero transparency from the rest of the company , especially the leadership. Since this has already been the norm for so many years, I highly doubt this culture will change once we all finally move to the "new, centralized" office in Santa Monica. This also means you might not know if a cut is coming until the day it comes! Surprise! Saw a lot of good engineers get laid off just because they were not part of their managers' favorite cliques. And then these poor folks get labeled as 'poor performers' This is what the company has evolved to over the years. Beware, for any folks who might be joining now just because of the tempting new vesting schedule(25-25-25-25). There might be more layoffs coming up! Some folks this time were cut right before their vesting date just so to save the company some money. Smart Move by Snap to break even!

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