Great coworkers, lacking leadership - Software Engineer Airtable Employee Review

3.0
Dec 13, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I really enjoyed talking to and working with a lot of my coworkers. I think the hiring bar is pretty good. Pay and benefits are decent for a "startup". Severance was pretty nice, 4 months pay.

Cons

Absolute lack in leadership from the ground to the ceiling. You get to watch leadership dodge questions during the All Hands. There's no clear product direction from the top. The leaders on the bottom are struggling to just keep things running and any big action requires so much effort to even move the needle. Even small changes require so much approval and you can tell that the "old guard" engineers just go ahead and make changes without approval or rubber stamp each others projects while everyone else struggles to get any approvals on even the smallest changes. Since the layoffs, culture in the office is just dead. Lunch is sad. Events at the office are awkward. People are closed and hesitant to connect.

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5.0
Feb 4, 2026
Recommend
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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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