Incredible Product, Awful leadership - Anonymous employee Airtable Employee Review

2.0
Jan 19, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

– Solid product and clients that truly love the technology – Pay and benefits are great – There are still excellent and resilient people left at the IC level, but, without direction or process, burnout is coming quick and middle management is squeezed in the middle.

Cons

- Complete lack of process, which is shocking for a 10 year old startup - Executive team without direction - The All Hands + Q&A Sessions are filled to the brim with non-answers and word salad – Multiple rounds of layoffs/rehiring all in the name of "targeting the enterprise" yet many of the business decisions do not reflect this misleading direction. For example, an 80% reduction of the customer success team responsible for said enterprise relationships.

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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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