Fast growing and profitable company - Staff Software Engineer Toast Inc Employee Review

5.0
Nov 14, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

* Growing to new markets * Building a great product, helping restaurants thrive * It depends on the team but if you are lucky you'll work on an interesting project and will be able to drive improvements and affect the roadmaps * Company culture is great overall

Cons

* Some PMs are highly incompetent but due to the company culture they continue working on the products they don't fit * Some top management decisions (like lay off the team owning e2e tests without a replacement) are weird and affect the products quality * Company policy is not allowing people to grow to the principal+ levels if they work on a single product as there is an official list of boxes you need to "tick" and one product (regardless of how great you've established it) doesn't count

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5.0
May 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hybrid work, great culture working for the company, benefits and pay is pretty good as well

Cons

Can feel hard to move within the company as opportunities don't open up often for specialist to move upwards

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Toast Inc Response
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We appreciate you sharing a candid review with us. We’re delighted that the culture and benefits are resonating with you. We'd recommend reaching out to your People Success Partner to discuss your feedback further.
2.0
Jun 26, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits and health insurance are amazing and the company culture as a whole is very positive. It was a pleasure to work with almost everyone I met in my time there.

Cons

Lower management, especially for care teams, deeply lacks integrity. Retaliatory practices, lack of communication, and failure to adhere to their own policies are very common behavior depending on who your manager is. The inconsistencies across what is expected from leadership are profound and it is disappointing how much this can derail your career trajectory at Toast. It’s also very difficult to help customers at times, as Toast is notorious for launching new products at customers and providing little to no support to agents that are then expected to troubleshoot using sparse or nonexistent resources and absolutely no training. Cross-collaboration with teams that occasionally intersect is also very challenging, particularly Sales/Onboarding and Care. There were many instances where sales and onboarding specialists set customers up with false expectations of the product, which leaves care teams to deal with the aftermath.

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