Exciting time for Engineering and Product - Lead Engineer Glassdoor Employee Review

5.0
Mar 3, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The engineering team is comprised of good people. Large engineering teams commonly have their share of high egos, but, refreshingly, there are no jerks here. There are 2 engineers in my management chain, including the CTO, and they are both people I trust, respect and learn from. Glassdoor is well-positioned as a business. Users can find open jobs, like they can on any other job site, but they can also discover what it's like to work at each company & how much money they can expect to make, right on the same page. That's a useful & powerful combination. The ceiling is high and the road ahead is exciting. The core infrastructure team is great. Our stack, architecture and processes used to be quite dated, but we're catching up. It's a fairly transparent company. The CEO answers anonymous questions every few weeks. I hope that's a channel we never lose.

Cons

The usual growing pains - communication, meetings, cross-team care & coordination - all take up time that could be spent coding away to glory.

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Pros

- Amazing management & team - Growth and learning opportunities - Flexible with work-life balance - Meaningful work

Cons

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2.0
Feb 11, 2026
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Pros

The benefits and culture were probably the best I've ever had. Even better than the benefits were the people I worked with. I enjoyed coming into work and doing my job and really stood behind the company tag line of helping people find jobs they love.

Cons

During covid things started getting bad. Like many other companies layoffs came around and how the company handled those were terrible. You show up one day and next thing you know you lose access and cryptic email and then your'e gone. This happened again in 2025. They brought in person whose job it was to basically get people to leave. They didn't care about the content on the site, or any of the efforts in place to promote integrity and transparency and instead just wanted to shove AI down everyone's throat. What's sad is that Glassdoor was once a great company that I was proud to say I worked for. Now it's just like everywhere else, AI, AI, AI and trying to get people to quit before the next round of layoffs.

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