Product vision unclear, leadership alignment is lacking - Anonymous employee Airtable Employee Review

3.0
Nov 19, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most people I directly worked with at Airtable were incredibly smart and down to earth. Some of the best folks in tech.

Cons

Product vision is unclear, and a lot of that seems to stem from lack of alignment among executive level leaders. The quick turnover among executive level leadership is also concerning. The lack of clear product vision means we can work on one product feature, only to have it be completely deprioritized the next quarter - creates a lot of wasted effort and whiplash.

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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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