Good riddance - Data Scientist Snap Employee Review

2.0
Jul 23, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Some cool coworkers (although they’re all leaving). - Great food. - Standard slew of tech benefits.

Cons

- Absolutely no growth potential. They don’t care about investing in their employees. - “Council”, conducted mainly by white employees, is cultural appropriation and a mockery of native cultures. - Sexual harassment is tolerated (and sometimes encouraged). If you’re a woman or LGBT, you will be harassed. If you are a sexual harasser, you will be promoted. - Management is incompetent and behaves like children. - Business decisions are irrational and delusional and often completely incomprehensible. - Management lies to your face. - HR will generally just ignore you. - Management will manipulate you to suit their purposes and throw you under the bus. - Internal politics is toxic (again, management consists of immature children). - Anonymous surveys aren’t anonymous and they will retaliate against you.

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Cons

- Leadership is incompetent. This company will die and when it does, it will be no one's fault other than Evan. - If you disagree with leadership and speak up, you will be punished. All SMC VPs hired each other from past companies. They are all corporate ladder climbers from Meta with no morals. - Being a leader at Snap means leading through fear and regularly throwing tantrums in conference rooms. - The ads business is a joke. No matter how many ex-[insert big tech name] engineers work on the product, you can't monetize an audience of 13 year olds or people who's sole use case for this app is inappropriate. - There is truly nothing redeeming about this business, B2C or B2B. It's all smoke and mirrors. I've never seen the population of monetizable users grow, it's only gone down since I've joined. To offset this we acquire the cheapest users possible to appease investors who see straight through this BS.

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