Strava reviews

Growth is impossible because management and leadership changes so frequently. This leads to overwhelming burn out for IC's and ultimately really high rates of churn because no one's really cared for on a personal level. Internal team culture was sad because the teams were staffed with such amazing people that then were just exhausted and frustrated all the time. Promotions and raises are empty promises every year, year after year until people just give up, which is honestly just sad to watch happen to great people. People get laid off fairly regularly, for really no reason at all. I've watched some of the most talented creatives and engineers I know get chopped out of nowhere, creating a really uneasy sense of unrest internally.

It pains me to write this because, at the ground level, Strava had some of the most enjoyable to work with individual contributors of any organization I've worked for. However, the good things kind of stop there. This is a company where keeping up appearances is paramount, at the expense of supporting employees, engaging in quality engineering, or promoting the people who actually deserve it instead of the ones who agree the loudest whenever the management team does one of their twice-a-year total reinventions of the product strategy (jettisoning a ton of work in progress). You'll hear a lot of lip service given to transparency and listening to employees, but any kind of dissent, even down to simply stating technical facts that might not line up with the story that management is trying to spin, will quickly get met with passive-aggressive punishment.