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Nothing great. Better places in the valley. - Engineering Apigee Employee Review

2.0
6 Apr 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Good compensation. -Great benefits. Medical insurance is free ( very small copays this year on ). -Catered meals. -Flexible working hours -Some ( few ) smart people. -Good chance to learn some new tech and AWS.

Cons

-Very top-heavy. Too many managers/directors/VPs - There are about 15 people doing product management for such a small firm. Too many directors in Insights ( when the product barely makes 2 million in revenue ). This is not an engineering driven firm. -Tons of bureaucracy. The CTO is very smart but is not allowed to provide direction. Very few technical managers who have the chops. Most of the managers are there to monitor scrum meetings and mumble on customer calls. -Devops is fearful of deploying anything new in production. There are lots of meetings to discuss new frameworks but very little sees the light of day because devops vetoes most new stuff. -Lots of developer churn. This is why you keep seeing job postings on Linkedin. -Massive equity dilution. Expect a high reverse stock-split at the IPO. If you have not seen the S-1 filing, you should. Only managers and above stand to make even a few 100k. The rest of the rank and file will not see much.

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Apigee Response
10y
I must admit that it always astounds me when a current employee says "Nothing great. Better places in the valley." I'm sure that people are left wondering the same thing I am. If this place is not great, why are you a current employee? The "con" about management layers is hard to understand in a company with no titles or levels. Perhaps that more a self-imposed hierarchy than real? And the words about whether we are or are not "engineering driven" is challenging in that I'm not sure that the goal is to be engineering driven. We are customer driven. I'm glad that you've mentioned and noticed the postings on Linked In. Yes, as a GROWING firm, we are hiring awesome people - including Engineers! Thank you for taking the time to write a review.

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Pros

There are a lot of exceptional people at Apigee. There are also people who aren't quite there yet, but most of them are young and by being here, they'll definitely be exceptional in their field in the future. If you're an Engineer, you'll be tasked with challenging problems. The problems, in my experience, have been fun and exciting. I remember during my interview, my interviewer said something that really stuck with me and enticed me into joining and that was "We're trying to solve the problems of the future". For context during the interview, "problems" referred to technical problems, but in many ways Apigee as a whole is trying to solve other problems in the world. If there's anything that you need in order to do your job better, you can definitely send a casual message to either the front desk (people ops) or IT. There's also a vending machine with common accessories. Parking is a breeze if you manage to get access to the building's parking lot. Otherwise, it's a small walk from the other parking lot down the street. Keto/Low-carbers will not have many issues with the catered lunch selections. There's usually always options. I, however, sometimes cheat when Sushi day comes along. Mostly everyone's calendar is public so you can spy Table tennis table and billiards in the gym

Cons

You might gain weight here if you aren't strongly willed when 11:30am comes around, but even the healthy options are tasty

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Apigee Response
9y
Wow, what a wonderful way to start a day! I woke up to this review and feel like my day is off to a great start Thank you for being so thorough and so thoughtful. We are operating on the belief that our environment impacts our engagement and our engagement impacts our ability to serve customers. Your review gives me confidence that we are on the right thought. Thank you!
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