do not work here if you’re an engineer - Anonymous employee Cargomatic Employee Review

1.0
Jul 24, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- decent benefits - engineering leadership understands and is sympathetic to how annoying it is to get anything done here

Cons

- Cargomatic is not a tech company. it is a logistics company that happens to have an engineering department. - unexpected layoffs. three have happened in the last 9 months - promotions do not happen. and if they do, they only come with 5% increased pay and 43% more work - CTOs (yes, plural) micromanage developers - there are two CTOs and they are equally as useless. they do not understand how to engineer software. their KPIs do not make sense - one of the KPIs the CTO has set is “hiring and retaining top talent” but the pay is very low, 3 engineers have quit in the last year, and nobody new has been hired - upper management has foolishly entrusted off-shore teams with mission critical features or areas responsible for high revenue streams. those areas are buggy and fragile. the bugs are then forced into the domestic teams’ workloads - equity clauses in contracts are not honored. quite a few people who were promised equity in their contracts have been continuously denied their equity after completing the vesting schedule - the chief operating officer has said on multiple occasions throughout the years that he would love to fire all of the operations staff (????) - no diversity. there’s only one woman in engineering

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5.0
Aug 25, 2025
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Pros

Organized process with employee guidance throughout.

Cons

Nothing that comes to mind. Great team with great people.

1.0
Jun 9, 2026
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Pros

Pros, they pay higher than industry average for sure.

Cons

Cons, this company is a clown show. It will never be successful under the current leadership of Rich Gerstein. They fail constantly at hiring people. They do not pay their third party drivers. Their cash flow is clearly an issue. They cannot retain employees. Do yourself a favor and do not come here to work.

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