Wyze Labs reviews

2.6

32% would recommend to a friend

(78 total reviews)
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Yun Zhang

38% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Wyze Labs has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 78 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Wyze Labs employee rating is 32% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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78 reviews
1.0
May 6, 2022

No respects to engineers

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Big impacts, nice people. Nothing else.

Cons

No respects to engineers. There are too many PMs who raise requests but not enough engineers who do the work. PMs can reach out to engineers directly and ask them to do various ad-hoc works even those are not in their scope. Company launches products so fasts (3-5 new products a year!) but there are not enough engineers who can handle so many new products launch! Everyone is working overtime on new features and new requirements to meet super tight deadlines for new product launch, no time to have a stop and think about long term plan or deal with the tech debt. So there are more and more tech debts and the backends crashed again and again. A lot of employees burnout and left. HRs and Leaderships tried to solve this problem, but no significant improvement. Yes we have longer PTO but we don’t have time to take days off because the tight deadlines. Yes we have JIRA and new workflows but PMs are still pinning you on Slack randomly without creating tickets. Some will even pin you in the evening, in weekends, during your vocation. Because of such bad work life balance and low compensation and no respects, so many employees have left. Even though leaderships haven’t take any efficient actions. Yes they raised our salary, you will get 5% increase when you get top tier ranking! Inflation now is 8% a year. I know someone from HR team may read this, may ask us to reach out to hr directly. But there’s nothing you can do to solve these problems. Fake good reviews can not make it easier to hire engineers and keep existing ones. The root cause of no respecting is that no one from the founders has a tech background so they can not see engineers’ values — so they don’t want to spend money to hire and pay really good engineers. (Founders have product backgrounds so they hire a lot PMs and launch products like crazy!. )And the company structure (shared tech team exposed to all products) made the problems even worse. No one wants to stay at a place where there is no respects, no wlb and get low paid. Even though people are nice here we don’t want to get burnouts and die for the job.

1.0
Apr 12, 2022

Save yourself

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Good PTO policy - Probably looks good on your resume - Mission statement brings great people - Trauma bonding - Free therapy

Cons

- I am sure HR team or managers fills out positive reviews to hide real employee feedback on Glassdoor - No 401k match - Comp is not very good and no way they will adjust - Horrible internal culture. I think everyone is nice but that does not stop it from being Toxic every other way - So many left that no one is emailing goodbye anymore. Bad sign - If Wyze has exit interviews they are not taken seriously. Same issues we had last year but so much worse because less employees. That is how I know there is no follow through - Don't care about things that are considered working unless something fails. Always reaction. Really No one ever has time to think ahead or finish features or go back and fix things before there is a problem across the entire company because everything is always about something new being released. - Unrealistic company goal and expectation coming from the top down. C suite has to calm down - Crunch never ends. They squeeze teams tighter and tighter to save money until even best employees crack - Typical "design by engineer or PM" bad UI because user research is not important - Every 2-3 employee is a product manager. There is no reason. Stop launching products for 5 minutes so you can count - Senior managers promoted because they are good at job not because they are good at strategy or being manager. - Senior leaders obsess with saving money. Costs more in the long run. they have to hire and train people over and over to replace burnout employees. or damage brand because the product is complicated and support is bad and not funded. No one doing the math on anything but short term ( I said everything is a reaction) - No work life balance. Not enough employees to use PTO - Not diverse. Teams split by race and gender. Female leaders all HR or Legal. Another team is almost all white only from same state. - Diversity and inclusion training is listed on Glassdoor? who is Translator we have never done any training

1.0
May 4, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

* You will have the opportunity to get hired here if you are a new grad, just because the compensation is so low and WLB is so bad that anyone who has a reasonable amount of experience won't choose to work here. * You do have some really talented and nice employees here.

Cons

* Management and leadership are literally telling people to write five-star reviews on glassdoor because the reviews and ratings are so bad, but real, so they can't find anyone to hire. Use your own judgment on those high rating reviews! Compare the length and content of the bad review to those of good ones! * Low compensation and unbelievably bad work-life balance. People are leaving and they are burnout. They don't respect what you accomplish and always request for more cause they don't care about your life. * People managers have no people managing skills at all! They are managers just because they used to be good ICs at Amazon. Hey, you see where the toxic culture comes from, don't you? Leadership is inexperienced. Honestly, look at their track record and past experience. How could they be so arrogant and not respect their employee's opinions at all? * Though you have good PTO, you will never have time to use it. Even if you used it, they will still try to contact you and ask you to get the job done when you are on vacation. Also, don't get fooled by the options, they are worth nothing. They are trying to give out an enormous amount of options to the new hires because they are not willing to give a reasonable base salary. However, they refuse to give current employees a refresh even when they are promoted. * NO career growth at all. They never provide any training and you will never find someone senior to guide you as they are all occupied by their work. Yourself is as well occupied by tedious and operational work, and never got the chance and time to explore new things. This is also because they can't get any reasonably new hires as their pay is way under the industry average, so all the current employees need to take more responsibilities on the backlogs. * Promotion cycle only happens once a month, and they always delay the review result. For 2021, the review results and annual bonuses are planned to come out in April but were postponed for two months, to June 2021. They promised to improve in 2022, but still, it got postponed! And if you get the top rating in your review, which is "exceed the expectation", you will get a 5% raise, less than the inflation, to your base salary. Well, I guess at least this is an improvement, as this is the first time they raised our salary.

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