A company that’s lost its way - Product Manager VSCO Employee Review

2.0
28 Oct 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pretty downtown Oakland offices, solid brand

Cons

Leaderless, rudderless, visionless. They’ve imported toxic corporate behavior from former Goldman Sachs and Facebook employees, unable to recognize it. They accept a culture of bullying. They coast off their brand and have no clue how to build things. Due to importing too many people from large corps with no startup experience, VSCO does not seem to know whether it’s a startup or not. There was an enormous amount of superficial lip service paid to diversity, equity, and inclusion. An exodus of queer and POC employees in 2020 should underscore this.

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5.0
1 Sept 2025
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Pros

Creative peers. Great leadership. Lots of nice community projects.

Cons

A bit less competitive product in a saturated space.

4.0
17 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great, creative people Supportive HR team Mission to support creative livelihoods

Cons

Bafflingly hard to change anything in the engineering org Slow pace of product development

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