Amazing place to work - Software Engineer Snap Employee Review

5.0
Jul 7, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Small team * Well funded * Intelligent and dedicated coworkers * Huge impact on product that has pretty large user base * Work out of a beach house * Salary competitive to large tech companies - not a startup salary * Lage equity grants * Good connections * Office is on Venice beach - balcony gives great view of the ocean * Vision is inspiring

Cons

* Beach house can be distracting * Lot of work - some social sacrifices need to be made * Lot of responsibility over product - stressful at times

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Cons

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Pros

- Great base comp - Unlimited PTO - Good food at offices

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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