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Things have changed, and now it's just not the same company we used to like. They deal with reviews, if you would rather read the 5 stars test data, you should skip this one. 1) H1B workers warning, you NEED to RUN!! 2) Be careful if you have plans to start a family. 3) No Transparency, Fake Hiring. About when Zoom became a thing, they started to get rid of the whole engineer team in Bay Area, and hire more overseas or in Arizona. They're trying to make it less obvious by constantly ask for referral and actively interviewing people in US, and hire none after all the hustle, only exhausting everyone with a lot of interviewing. Then they would not give people proper raise so you would leave by yourself. Recently, they had a layoff, and guess who get fired. 4) Your loyalty is a joke to them. 5) The New CEO and New CTO is good at whipping people with fear. Every once a while, the CTO will re-structure the whole team, simply because he can. He will make cruel and awkward jokes in the meeting taking about he heard someone is not working very hard, and then say "just a joke". Nobody could possibility laugh. Micro-managing. The CTO would join your daily stand up meeting and want to know what you did yesterday, what you are doing today, and what you plan to do tomorrow. 6) Extremely hard onboarding. Not a lot of documentation, people just remember stuff. If you are new, you have to fix and update the environment set up documentation, ping people for information, and remember they are not really hiring, so not a lot people to ping, and you still have to report to CTO/your team, what you did, doing and plan to do every single day. 7) The new office is in San Ramon, somewhere near Livermore, they chose it simply because it's cheap and the CEO lives near by, so as a nobody in the company, you better find yourself a nice podcast while driving. 8) The performance review is soooooo delayed every single year. This year, the performance review is after a mass layoff. I dare you to ask for a raise. 9) They are slowing down/stop to working on major new feature. I guess they are pretty confident about the product and deeply believe no one can create something that would out beat them within years. It's all about stabilizing the platform, and then fire everyone once it's stable enough. Or they are planning to sell the company, since they want the current but not future. 10) Ask you to fix stuff without offering the proper tool. They want bug free platform, but they will turn off log once it's out of quote.

Going to break the bullet points here. I just don't feel heard as an engineer at the company. The company is not trying at all to save their engineers (don't want to give good raises, avoid hot topics like why so many engineers are leaving or are let go, seen very few promotions over my time here, etc). They won't say it, but also for every engineer that has left the company this year, they have backfilled it with talent from India. Frontend, backend, etc. They say it's "hard" to find "good talent" in the Bay Area. There's plenty of talent in the Bay Area, but their interview process is trying to be a Big 4 company, when we just need people who know how to code to help. The company does not care about the engineers and choose the "you already get paid enough stop complaining" treatment. We're people too, and deserve to be valued just the same as anyone else. Stop brushing things under the rug. Value your engineers. Make them want to stay and grow with the company. Don't push them away.