No merit, only politics - Anonymous employee Scale Employee Review

1.0
Jan 28, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Hopefully, it will go public someday.

Cons

This company hires senior staff engineers from the top tech companies, but the CEO's "inner circle" abuses them for a year, so they all quit. has no one in charge of anything. Everybody here is a new grad. their very first job. There are good new grad engineers coming out of school, but they leave after a year. "Leaderships" are extremely insecure, it's also their first job ever, they're trying to get people to quit because they're afraid of good ones.

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Cons

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