Scale reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(419 total reviews)
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Alexandr Wang

66% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Scale has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 419 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Scale employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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419 reviews
1.0
Apr 8, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of the employees have great pedigree

Cons

arrogant, inexperienced kids in leadership positions dishonest business practices not a software company - body shop misrepresent the company during interviews toxic culture at times

1.0
Mar 5, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- The company is built on top of a group of extremely smart and hard working people. It is not uncommon that some people work more than 50 hours regularly. By leveraging these extraordinary human resources, the company will no doubt be very successfully in the short / medium term. Investors should be very proud of their bets.

Cons

- This company is a body shop. There is zero work life balance. The executives and managers do not care much of their people. They keep pushing new projects on the employees and let them burnout. The company provides not only lunch but also dinner everyday. You know why? Because people have to work super late and the catered dinner saves them time from going outside to grub food. - The company has a solo focus on velocity. Engineers rush for new customer requests all the time and do not have time to architect or code properly. Priorities change every few days (yes, it sounds crazy). The former VP of engineering left the company because he did not agree with the company's over-emphasis on speed. Most of the engineering teams could not even plan a project of one month long. Most of the features are rushed and have accumulated a ton of tech debt, which has been causing a lot of damage now. If you are an engineer, you will not have the time to follow any of the best practices. Be prepared to become a lousy engineer if you work here for too long.

5.0
Mar 3, 2020

On the rise

Recommend
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Pros

---Lots of growth. Company does everything quickly like growing. I have a lot of responsibility and I think most people do too. Great impact. ---Really smart but also nice coworkers. No bs culture. People are intellectually honest. ---People work very hard (I work around 50 hours a week) but it's easy to work from home or take time off if I need to. Really nice office, great food and benefits

Cons

---Typical engineering pains for a high growth company. ---Some people overreact or are too emotional. For a lot of people here Scale is their first job.

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