Pockets of great people, but overall toxic work culture and management - Anonymous employee Scale Employee Review

2.0
Jan 26, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-There are some really great people at the analyst/mid-level management who are bright, caring, and fun to work with -If you can stick around long enough for your RSUs to vest this company will probably be worth something someday -Base comp is ok

Cons

Where to start? -As other reviewers have mentioned, the CEO's inner circle is the only group empowered to make real decisions. So much politics at the upper level. Intense micromanaging from C-suite execs but done without structure or process = teams are always overworked trying to respond to the latest fire. -Have seen the CEO publicly shame people in meetings: "this is stupid, this is a waste of my time." Affects a great friendly, approachable persona in public but is incredibly mean-spirited and unkind during smaller groups. -Work life balance is a huge issue across all groups at the company. Weekend work + work past 6pm is common, as is responding to/getting slacks at 10pm in the evenings -Recent RIF was completely unanticipated, not done thoughtfully across many groups -Groups often work in silos and cross-functional collaboration is super hard because 1. no clear ownership and 2. only execs are empowered to make the final decisions

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Pros

- Lot of flexibility as you get a say in how much core platform vs. customer-specific work you want to take up - Exciting growth avenues being pursued by organization in both enterprise and public sectors - Heavy emphasis on internal tooling being built that augments developer experience and pace of client delivery

Cons

- Sometimes, the team moves at a rapid pace at expense of sustainability/maintainability for short-term wins. - Lots of internal tooling being built are prematurely deployed for developers, and a lot of time goes into back-and-forth for gains that will only be visible in a large lookahead.

5.0
Jul 13, 2026
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Pros

- High ownership - Able to make change quickly

Cons

- Lack of CI/CD maturity can be annoying at times - Not always clear what to build (highly ambiguous domain)

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