On a downhill trajectory for a few years now - Senior Software Engineer 8x8 Employee Review

2.0
Jun 8, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The company had a great WFH policy up until recently. More on that in the cons sections. That's all.

Cons

For all their talk about DEI and other such things, the US leadership clearly has no idea how to deal with the RO employees and it feels more and more like the RO site treated an outsourcing company where orders are passed through the equally clueless RO leadership down to the employees. Whatever the latest company strategy is - it's not working, look at the stock price. Unable to turn the ship around, leadership takes it all out on ICs who haven't received pay increases, tax compensations, inflation indexation, etc. I guess the US leadership hasn't got the slightest clue about how big the RO inflation was and still is and the servile RO leadership is too afraid to raise any legitimate concerns with them. Moreover, there's a big push to RTO because that will clearly fix things. Honestly, the only real benefit for working at this company and now they're taking that away as well because how else can get rid of people without laying them off?

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5.0
Sep 11, 2025
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Pros

So far the benefits are just amazing

Cons

Frequent layoffs. But no cons in general

2.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

*Good health insurance *Company "mental health" days off *Work/life balance *LinkedIn learning

Cons

*You will have to chase several people through several teams before you actually obtain the assistance you are looking for, however once you get to the right team/person, be prepared to be talked to like you're an annoyance rather than a colleague. A lot of "pass the buck" type of mentality, and "that's not our responsibility" attitude, then discover the people/person you're looking for doesn't work there anymore. *They reduce staff under the guise of "redundancies of the role", when they're really moving the exact role to Philippines or other countries as they can obtain more employees for that same paycheck. *Will hire new staff, have you train them, then reduce the positions within that team after you've trained them. *Upper management will promote not based on merit but nepotism, and it's not a secret but up in your face, and will tell you "its not personal". *They will shove the "we care about our people" culture down your throat, when in fact they DO NOT care about their people, especially the knowledgeable ones, they will eliminate those as soon as possible to get fresh blood in, with no knowledge or expertise, and often in other countries so they can pay them less than here. Truth. *Management is top heavy, always has been, no change in sight for this down the road.

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