Good Culture, but poor direction and no innovation - Software Engineer Tails.com Employee Review

2.0
Sep 17, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Tails has lovely people to work with. Some great individual engineers that are very talented and great at sharing their knowledge and experience. Additionally, it is easy to get your own initiatives going, engineers are very open to ideas if they can be reasoned.

Cons

Unfortunately for tails, the talent just about stops once you leave the engineers department. C Level leadership is extremely poor and top heavy. At times there have been “managers” not managing anyone, in an attempt just to promote. As a result it’s left tails with huge debt technically that it’s having to pay back now. Leaderships absolute refusal to invest properly in engineers has resulted in a department that is going to be left middling due to low salaries (Tails.com sit about 25% behind the rest of the market), resulting in an inability to hire good senior talent. Tails.com could be an amazing technology pet company. They brand themselves as such. But it’s requires proper investment, that at the moment, isn’t there.

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5.0
Oct 11, 2022
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Pros

- Great team values - Clear / shared vision - Calibre of employees

Cons

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Tails.com Response
3y
Great to see such a positive review from a Pack member who has been through so many stages of change at tails.com. Thank you so much for taking the time for your review. Many thanks, Henrik Head of People
5.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

Working for a company offers steady income, benefits, and a built-in team, along with structure and chances to grow your skills and career.

Cons

Working for a company offers steady income, benefits, and a built-in team, along with structure and chances to grow your skills and career. On the flip side, you trade away some control over your time and decisions, deal with office politics and bureaucracy, and face limits on flexibility and earning potential. It’s a balance of security and structure versus autonomy and upside.

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