Great place to work - Senior Software Engineer WP Engine Employee Review

5.0
Nov 3, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Great culture * Moving more and more to ReactJS and more modern tech stack * Good UX team * Great benefits (25 days hols, medical & dental cover, 16 weeks paid maternity, 5 weeks paid paternity, Macbook Pro, good salary). * Heather the CEO is an inspiration. Not your typical CEO, she's like one of us. * Everyone is sound. * No office politics. * €500 when you join to put towards your home office.

Cons

* Some legacy tech still in place (coffeescript, jquery) but moving away slowly but surely.

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WP Engine Response
5y
Thanks so much for your feedback. You’re right that we continue to evolve our tech stack, and appreciate you acknowledging that. We also love to see that you appreciate so many aspects of our culture and of course, our amazing CEO (if we do say so ourselves)!

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5.0
Jan 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of support from management. I always felt like I was heard. Plenty of support from my teammates. The CEO is an amazing person.

Cons

Customers only reach out because there are issues with their sites; causing them to be upset most of the time. Tough job if you are not used to remote work.

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WP Engine Response
5mo
We appreciate you taking the time to share such a thoughtful review. While we're glad you had an overall positive experience in regards to feeling supported by your manager, teammates, and feel Heather, our CEO is an amazing person. We agree! We are sorry to hear you didn't feel like there were opportunities for promotions. We know you no longer work here at WP Engine, but if you have any other thoughts you'd like to share so that we can learn more about what could've gone better, you're welcome to reach out to anybody on our Employee Experience Team to do so. Thank you again and we wish you the best in future endeavors.
1.0
Jul 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Remote. Great people. Decent benefits. Nice work/life balance.

Cons

Subpar pay. Lack of career growth and stability. Upper management and leadership are heavily disconnected from the core product. They want to "AI" their core platform just because everybody else is doing it but they have no clear direction / solution that makes sense. They sign contracts for services that they don't vet fully and cause headaches for tech support. They mask "reorgs" with surprise layoffs.

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WP Engine Response
1d
We appreciate your candid feedback, and the time you took to leave a review. We're glad to hear you had a positive experience with colleagues, our remote-first culture, work-life balance, and benefits. Those are all important parts of the employee experience, and we're pleased they stood out. We're also appreciate your view on where you feel we fell short. Feedback about compensation, career growth, leadership connection, and organizational change are meaningful, even when they're difficult to hear. While we can't comment on specific business decisions, we appreciate your perspective. Thank you again for telling us about your experience at WP Engine.
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