Par for the course chaos for a pre-IPO, over valued tech company - Anonymous employee Airtable Employee Review

2.0
Jun 27, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work/life balance is good for my department Benefits and comp are competitive Leadership communicates frequently through weekly All Hands

Cons

Leadership doesn't seem to have confident POVs, leading to a moving target roadmap. The AI goldrush has made it worse. I'm sure all companies are experiencing this same pivot, but our strategy for AI has been done in a way that seems more trend chasing / catching up over true innovation for the product. This is the one of the most disorganized place I've worked at. Airtable mistakes its product as a replacement for operational roles like program managers or operations. The result: poor usage of Airtable within Airtable. Our org is drowning from a pyramid of approvals and reviews from managers and leaders. Things cannot get shipped without the review from several leaders. This has eroded the team's trust and has put many people into a mode of complacency over innovation.

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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
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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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