Toxic company to work - Senior Software Engineer Five9 Employee Review

2.0
Sep 12, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Base salary Stock options (they’re kind of a real but they give you stocks)

Cons

Mandatory oncall (payment is really low) Mandatory office days (they check if your badge was used or not) Target points per week (in which a point should be equivalent to a day of working) They track your commits on git People working when on vacations and it seems normal! Stupid procedures such as “feature flag ceremony” in which you enable your features in prod in the presence of a group of people that know nothing of what has been done and needs to happen in a stupid schedule. Maintenance Windows to deploy services do production In summary there’s a lot of processes in place to castrate a developer, never been through so many obstacles to put something to prod and these stupid metrics only lead into people either add more points to the tickets or commit unnecessary stuff to look good on the reports rather than focusing on the real problems.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Not a single pro, this company is awful

Cons

- Leadership promotes their boys club buddies that severely lack leadership skills - The product sucks. It's nowhere near industry standard - The culture is HORRIBLE. Very much sink or swim, no support, zero engagement with other employees unless you suck up to them or are in the office - Mid Market "RVP" leaders are some of the worst Ive ever seen. If you dont go to them to appease their ego for every little thing, they will "manage" you out - SKO was the worst broke company efforts Ive ever seen. Shouldnt have had one, this company is embarrassing. The public speakers and corny jokes were the most cringe thing Ive ever witnessed, Ive never felt more demotivated in my life - Boys club culture to the fullest, if you dont stroke everyones ego, you're out Stay far away from this company. Go to a real CX/UC company. FIve9 is begging for acquisition and no one will take them. The system is old and ugly. Run from this org. Don't bother.

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