Software Engineer? Run. - Anonymous employee GoodRx Employee Review

2.0
Feb 4, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, highly competitive salary, generous PTO. I'm going to have trouble finding a place that will pay me as well as GoodRx does when I leave.

Cons

== Oblivious Management == After airing our grievances in an anonymous Q&A at a large meeting, the CTO got defensive and said all of this is new to him and blamed us for not raising our concerns to him. Trouble is, ICs and middle management have not been silent. We'd been saying the same things since before the CTO joined. Either leadership is unwilling/unable to make reforms, or they're oblivious to what's going on on the ground. Neither speaks well of their competence. == Cronyism == Upper management is a problem. After a certain high-level person joined, senior positions became filled with people from Ticketmaster and Fandango. Since we went public, title inflation has reached meme levels: We directors and VPs with only one direct report, usually an IC. Got negative feedback for someone at the director level or higher in the engineering org? Forget it. It'll get lost on its way up the chain, even if multiple people give the same feedback. There are some toxic employees that need to be fired but are somehow immune. True or not, the optics are bad: they appear to be protected by friends higher up. Remember, there are a lot of people from the same two companies up there. Some of them know each other, even followed each other here. == Little Stability == Don't expect it. For the last two years we've reorganized about once a quarter. Some people get switched to teams with different domains than they're used to with no consultation or even against their wishes. Others don't move. == Career Path? Eh... == If what you do isn't obviously revenue-generating or demonstrable cool UIs or graphs, then getting a promotion is an uphill battle compared to some of your other peers.

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5.0
May 14, 2026
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Pros

Great space to learn, encouraged learning from mistakes, great overall positive attitude and collaboration amongst eng and non-eng co-workers

Cons

Started to feel more of a company that started prioritizing profits and started to think of several products to ship out without much support for the reason or long term support to improve the products.

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4.0
Jun 23, 2026
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Pros

Great compensation and benefits. Extreme work flexibility. Mission driven work where you know your directly helping Americans access important health care. Company is taking a great measured approach to AI adoption.

Cons

GoodRx is an established dominant player in the prescription drug space and is starting to flounder a bit in the face of stiff, more digital first, competition. Unclear what the future holds and this is reflected in the stock price. As such project direction can be a bit vague. Similarly a long history of tech debt, further muddled by HIPAA requirements, can make product development painful.

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