Trainwreck - Anonymous employee FloQast Employee Review

1.0
Sep 27, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent benefits, talented engineers, and a culture that used to be fun and honest

Cons

After hiring Yiftach as a new Director of engineering, he has pushed for faster development times at the expense of code quality, oversight, and even the slightest bit of architecture. Tickets are now created based on sales calls that are expected to be implemented within weeks, even for low priority tasks. Engineers are worked to the bone and expected to work long hours even outside of work time, and given little support by other teams that are all also overwhelmed. Meanwhile, errors in the app frequently go completely unhandled and basic access control checks are missing for most routes. Legacy code is growing rampant as we push out garbage code, and yet for many legacy repos there aren't even teams assigned to maintain them so when bugs pop up they go unfixed until a random team can be brought up to speed. The focus on fast development times over resilient code with any semblance of architecture has now taken an even further dive as the company decided to lay off 49 senior engineers (couldn't lay off 50 without a fair warning in California) from the R&D teams and instead hire 100 entry level engineers to speed up development. Included in these 49 engineers was most of the security team and what was left of the non-existent QA team. Good luck.

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