Solid pay/WLB and unique product eng opportunities - Engineering Manager Airtable Employee Review

5.0
Sep 2, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay and WLB, and some really smart and talented colleagues. At Airtable we get to encounter some unique and, honestly, quite fun product challenges (eg "how much customization should we support with feature and which use cases are we choosing to address with it?"), and as an engineer you get to play a huge role in how we go about solving them. We have some really talented PMs and Designers to work with, but the technical nature of the product lends itself rather well for engineers to support and even drive product direction. If you enjoy product thinking and/or talking to passionate customers, product eng at Airtable is likely a good fit.

Cons

The product is very complex and can take some time to ramp up on. The fact that it is a platform for building apps supportive of any industry/vertical can make it a challenge to understand the use cases and really grok customer pain points until you get a chance to see how the product is used first-hand.

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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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