Turo was awesome and then I got laid off - Manager Turo Employee Review

3.0
Oct 10, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

There are very smart and dynamic people (leaders and individual contributors) that you get to work with and learn from. The group I worked with had a number of 10x engineers from whom I learned to evolve my thinking about systems, automation and developer experience. Many of them are still around so I'm pretty sure that the they are maintaining the high standards of engineering.

Cons

Till the day I got laid off in April I was probably wearing rose tinted glasses and didn't see it coming. The manner in which the layoff happened was very cold which felt very much against the values that I had seen exhibited in the 2 years that I was there. The realities of P&L and balance sheets and delayed IPO can do that. Therefore the company isn't what it used to be in terms of the culture.

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5.0
May 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good culture in the engineering department

Cons

Still waiting for their IPO

1.0
Jun 25, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Unfortunately, not many since the company has shifted priorities, post layoffs. Good work/life balance but depends on your role

Cons

Lack of employee development due to lack of bandwidth for leaders, new shift in performance management allows leaders to let employees go without development paths, there's a push to work harder and move faster creating a toxic work environment.

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