Stressful and with too many layoffs - Software Engineer Tinybird Employee Review

2.0
15 Sept 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote work. Interesting and in-depth technical project to work in. Lots to learn about distributed systems. Colleagues are very nice to work with.

Cons

It is a startup with a very particular way of working very fast I've never seen before even on previous startups. Expectations about your role and what you're supposed to do are not clear. So, unless you worked previously with the founders, it’s complicated. In general, I think it's a very stressful company. The company is mainly focused on launching new features very quickly and mostly forgot about making the platform stable. As a result, there were many incidents. Developers in general, and especially people in on-call shifts are under lots of pressure. No wonder why most developers are people in their 30s or early 40s with no kids or people at their charge. The company makes achieving a healthy work-life balance extremely hard. Please, before thinking about joining them, check out the number of former employees on Linkedin. Try to get in touch with former and current employees to see whether you're a good fit. I saw tens of people joining the company and being fired unexpectedly. Some of them after years of working in the company with no prior warning or any significant bad sign in their periodic performance reviews. There are waves every 2-3 months in which several people are "let go" each time. I ended up with the feeling that in the best case scenario, they squeeze you until you have no more juice. At that time, either you leave because you're burned out or they fire you because you're not so useful anymore. Honestly, I feel ashamed of myself for working for this company considering they treat people more like disposable resources than like human beings.

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3.0
19 Mar 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A great product. Smart and helpful colleagues.

Cons

They laid off 50% of the company in January 2025. There seems to be a lack of direction, lots of misdirection, and building things that are half-baked and sometimes abandoned. The marketing department is a complete mess. It would benefit them if they sourced engineering and founders as authors of their more technical content.

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