Snap Software Developer reviews

3.2

37% would recommend to a friend

(222 total reviews)
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Evan Spiegel

10% approve of CEO

7% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Snap with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 222 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Snap is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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222 reviews
1.0
Mar 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some really smart co-workers (who got cut in a brutal layoff ), and there is always something to learn from them. Free food ( less and less offered every day )

Cons

Lipstick on a pig, looks fine on the surface, but lots of politics underneath. Especially in very large teams where 20 people might report to one manager. Expect zero transparency from the rest of the company , especially the leadership. Since this has already been the norm for so many years, I highly doubt this culture will change once we all finally move to the "new, centralized" office in Santa Monica. This also means you might not know if a cut is coming until the day it comes! Surprise! Saw a lot of good engineers get laid off just because they were not part of their managers' favorite cliques. And then these poor folks get labeled as 'poor performers' This is what the company has evolved to over the years. Beware, for any folks who might be joining now just because of the tempting new vesting schedule(25-25-25-25). There might be more layoffs coming up! Some folks this time were cut right before their vesting date just so to save the company some money. Smart Move by Snap to break even!

2.0
Mar 8, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- all the individual engineers are talented - your lower level managers are pretty awesome people - there's interesting work - hiring bar and diversity seem to be good shape - amenities and perks are pretty nice - good work life balance

Cons

- upper management is just stinking awful. You'll never hear from Evan except through maybe five emails in the course of a year. - They're constantly "restructuring" and shifting teams around for no reason making it seem like there's some weird politics going around. I was involuntarily moved under five teams in a year each with a different director - Some big big BIG decisions seem to be knee-jerk responses. Very little stuff are data-driven - No transparency. I got all of my developments on the business side of Snap via TechCrunch like everyone else. - Honestly not sure where the future of the company will go. Poor morale when I left - Venice homeless people hate you

4.0
Jan 28, 2018

Software Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Very talented people on team. - Cutting Edge technology to work on

Cons

- Fear of layoffs - Office space keep on moving

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