Sad to leave - Site Reliability Engineer Beyond, Inc. Employee Review

4.0
Jan 5, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

There is a lot of room for improvement at Overstock (now Beyond) which means that you get to learn a lot by actually building and trying new things out. A lot of the development teams seem to care about improving their services based off of ops recommendations which is helpful. Pay was good and benefits are pretty good as well. Got to take as much time off as needed to handle personal business.

Cons

I will preface this by saying that there were no cons about working on the ops team. Also, ignore the CEO rating if it still says Jonathan Johnson is the CEO - he's not. When I left the co-CEOs were the Dave Nielsen and Adrienne Lee. I have no idea how to rate them because the only big thing that happened under them was the 2nd layoff of the year (or was it 3rd? I lost track). However, being an ops engineer you get exposed to all sides of Ops and Development. There are quite a few developers that seem to not really care about the product(s) that they work on which ends up becoming an ops problem because their alerts become our problem. There are also some people with lofty titles that don't seem to know what they're doing and it's shocking that they survive the layoffs when I can almost guarantee that they are being paid much, much more than the folks on the ops team that were laid off. Then, the layoffs. There were three during my short time at Overstock. The first two rounds hurt but made sense because they affected business units that were well overstaffed. This last one was...interesting. Having been part of it, the process was incredibly heartless and came at a horrible time (December is an absolute dead time for hiring) as if paying these people their salary for another month would have tanked the company. They let go of a lot of really talented folks that made a positive impact on the company.

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5.0
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Pros

great leadership and good processing

Cons

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1.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Fast paced environment with LOTS of hands-on experience with many different tools. The people are the reason to stay, lots of smart and caring people, managers, and leaders towards the bottom of the food chain.

Cons

Upper Management has completely destroyed this company and gutted it. In my several years at the company, communication is as poor as it could be. Bonuses are promised and then not followed up on. RIFs happen far too frequently. It is abundantly clear that this company does NOT care about it's employees, and at the moment is almost seems like they are trying as hard as they can to get people to quit so they don't have to pay severances before acquiring more companies and moving headquarters to Texas. The culture in the days of Overstock was incredible, it made people excited about being able to work there. Now people are hanging on by threads, large teams are now carried on the backs of just 1-2 people without additional pay as we see co-workers get laid off left and right. It is not sustainable. Important things are being missed because there are not enough people to do the work, which will end up biting the company in the butt for compliance and finance reasons.

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