Big bucks but had to leave - Software Engineer Snap Employee Review

2.0
26 Feb 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay, good benefits, food in-office

Cons

Really depends on your team/management, especially work-life balance. In general: expectations very high, hard to get promotions, nobody likes upper management, volatile stock, RTO requirements continue to constrict, seems like there's no communication between teams, constantly switching priorities, upper management will drop anything at the whim of the CEO. People frequently working after-hours or on weekends even when they're not on-call, especially for app-facing teams (internal teams less so). CEO likes to walk around office early morning or late afternoon wondering why nobody is in, once said "this isn't a 9-5", subsequently breakfast & dinner hours were pushed outward to encourage employees to come in earlier and stay later. Frequent reorganization = shuffled between managers regularly. LA-specific: in-office commute zone is 50 miles, which for LA means many people were driving 2+ hours one-way or staying well after work hours/dinner to avoid rush hour. Diversity is ok when just walking around campus and seeing who is there but recently (2024) the company went through a settlement regarding discrimination and harassment against women. Not many managers/senior managers/above are women. Not many senior engineers are women. Diversity programs (engineering) getting funding cuts/decreasing in size since 2022

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5.0
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Pros

Great working culture and mission of work

Cons

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2.0
17 May 2026
Recommend
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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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