Great people, awful leadership - Anonymous employee Airtable Employee Review

1.0
Dec 11, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Airtable has hired some of the best and brightest. Truly amazing co-workers that are doing their best to drive the business forward. - The line managers are also amazing. Really engaged with their employees and figuring out how to solve problems. - The future for Airtable seems bright. Even thought the valuation seems to be overstated, the company's vision is strong.

Cons

- They laid off 20% of the company 15 days before Christmas. While the severance was strong... this was just an awful way to treat employees and no doubt, brings up many questions for those who survived. All this after the CEO just purchased a $30 million home in Beverly Hills. - The overall business strategy is not clearly defined. Selling into the enterprise is not a strategy... it's a tactic. Leadership has been asked about this countless times and cannot seem to build more clarity. - Finally, the product is not user friendly and attempts to make it more so are elusive and low impact. Very few users stick with the product after the first few months and there have been almost no improvements over the past few years.

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5.0
Feb 4, 2026
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Pros

Office culture is amazing - dedicated "culture ambassadors" (a recruiter and engineer) plan events in the NYC office , and they're doing an amazing job, not to mention daily interactions and lunches with a strong in-office presence. Coworkers on my team are incredibly smart, kind, and thoughtful. In my experience, there is a total absence of known smart but "difficult" people, which is unheard of. Really interesting, technically deep projects, since we are fundamentally a data company. Perks and benefits are great. One of the rare tech companies that still seems to have all the right values regarding DEI, work life balance, and keeping its employees happy.

Cons

Not sure what the outlook is on the future of AI - we're certainly at a major inflection point with a new CTO and a lot of AI initiatives, and it remains to be seen how it goes. Quality of managers seems to be mixed. High management turnover, but that's the industry right now.

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4.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- great flexible product, heavily dogfooded - generally nice and smart coworkers - all my EMs have been great - comp and benefits are good

Cons

- codebase is pretty heavyweight, a large monorepo - distributed and remote-friendly company means you don't get much face time with many of your coworkers - recent wave of departures and re-orgs has been a bit chaotic

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