Snap reviews

3.4

48% would recommend to a friend

(1,186 total reviews)
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Evan Spiegel

28% approve of CEO

19% positive business outlook

Snap has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,186 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Snap employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Dec 8, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good location and food; good company vision. Location: Venice beach is a lively tourist location with good weather and quirky locals. Food: You get 3 meals per week at local restaurants, most of which are pretty good. Use them if you don't like what's in the cafeterias. Vision: Evan Spiegel is a gifted product designer and I enjoy making his products.

Cons

The company is not as established as larger companies like FB or Google, so we don't have every perk imaginable yet, and a lot of internal tools are yet to be built. Internal hackathons are few and far-between.

4.0
Dec 7, 2016

Decent

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided. Pay for your phone bill - up to $75 a month. Good, energetic group of people

Cons

Felt slightly mistreated as an intern and not respected as much as the full time employees although this may just be a case of N=1

3.0
Nov 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I worked as a story editor on the content team, curating submitted snaps for their Live Stories. There are really good benefits and perks — you don't have to pay into healthcare, the snacks are pretty sweet, there are occasional activities like free group workout classes. You feel like you're working at one of the most exciting companies in the world. You can have a pretty big say in projects even without a ton of past work experience; Snapchat generally values the input and creativity of its employees, and wants be cooler and more innovative than anywhere else and that led to some really fruitful creative work. The pay is really good.

Cons

Horrific and irregular hours, far worse than initially advertised in the job description. It was not uncommon to work on both overnight and daytime shifts in the same week, which was nuts and totally destabilized any ability to have a social life outside of work. That's something that not might be visible from the outside, but attention toward employee wellness in this respect was minimal. There's a lack of diversity in the company overall — the content team at one point was definitely one of the more diverse teams (racially + gender-wise) but leadership and management is vastly white and male, which led to interpersonal issues and some tone-deafness in regard to content decisions. A relatively flat organizational structure meant it was difficult to get promoted or see the potential for a longer-term career ladder.

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