Drives away good employees - Software Engineer Xometry Employee Review

2.0
Feb 22, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Some really smart people work here with awesome backgrounds - Office is nice - Nerf battles, dogs in the office sometimes - Good place to grow and take initiative on new projects

Cons

- People are asked to work weekends constantly, almost every weekend. - CTO(Scott Rothrock) has no boundaries will call, text, email you at night, on weekends, on vacation. - Arbitrary deadlines are set on projects and if they're not met people have to work overtime and the feature is released with minimal testing and with bugs. - Pretty much zero process, no story point estimation, no retrospectives, devs are not involved in planning whatsoever. - In general not much accountability, usually the various software teams(web/data science, geometry) are blamed and called out, in many cases the team leads are yelled at by the CTO in meetings in front of everyone. This is a very disrespectful, demoralizing practice in my opinion. - Extremely unequal pay throughout the team, up to ~40% differences for the same title. - Features are thrown at devs with no warning sometimes in the middle of the sprint, with little to no design and a deadline. This will likely cause the current feature in the sprint to be completely neglected in favor of the ad hoc request. - Many weeks of work from devs are consistently thrown out due to the priorities of the company changing on a daily basis, one day it's work on the sprint, the next a feature is dropped on the team with 3 day deadline, 3 days later it's attacking performance. There is no plan just constant priority changing based on the most recent complaint from stakeholders. - Very high turnover

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Can only speak for the product side of things: Good amount of smart people with diverse backgrounds. There is a lot of space to make an impact on the product. Many parts of the product are not at their potential so there is potential for huge company wins. Starting to hit our stride in terms of how we think about opportunities, product ideas, and implementation. Pace is fast but manageable. Will keep your mind fresh.

Cons

Occasional alignment chaos but it is definitely getting better as we create better operating models. Ambiguities sometimes manifests in teams rowing in slightly different directions. Coworkers can be pretty direct to a fault. Org needs to work on team mentality and just generally being respectful of each other in every way.

2.0
May 28, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Flex PTO was nice - Decent work life balance - Remote work

Cons

- When I received my promotion I was told that I would get back pay for the start of the year, they cancelled that and only gave us stock options -HR messed up my W2 more than once, AND DIDN'T PAY me one time. They accidentally switched my role to hourly when I was a salaried employee. - My manager promised I promotion that came a year late with a 2% salary increase.. - There was no growth trajectory - My manager lied to me on multiple occasions

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