Invitae Software Engineer reviews

- Completely clueless middle-management, the worst I've seen. Ever since the stock price tanked and they brought in some scary C-suite sharks, the managers are running scared and trying to protect themselves to the detriment of everything else. - If you are rank-and-file, you can expect layoffs to be a constant fear in the back of your mind. If you are management, you have nothing to worry about, the entire company apparatus is set up to insulate you from accountability. - The company has no formal performance management, or even performance tracking. They randomly do leveling assessments that are retroactive and punitive. You will find out in Q3 of 2021 that your performance was "just okay" in Q1 2020. - There is no training, you are just expected to know things. - Extremely contractor-heavy development teams. The contractors are generally pretty good, but that says more about the agency that employs them than Invitae. This is a rare company where the contractors actually pity the full-time employees. - The company's outlook is abysmal. They acquired a bunch of companies during the peak of the market valuations, which every employee thought was crazy, they're barely able to keep their own product together, much less integrate other companies' products. Listen to the earnings calls! They are a total bloodbath!

- The software systems are way too complex and poorly built. I attribute this to a lack of talent (the CEO said he won't pay competitive salaries) and the complex genetics space that software engineers don't really comprehend. This leads to massive tech debt. - High engineering turnover as engineers quickly get overwhelmed. Probably the highest engineering turnover I've ever seen in my career. - Engineering leadership laid off the entire production support team and expect the remaining engineers to pick up their difficult job.