Great company, but it is in tough times - Engineering Manager WeightWatchers Employee Review

3.0
11 Dec 2025
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Pros

One of the best places I've ever worked. Really saw value in the product we were building towards supporting weight loss and healthy habits. It has meaningful impact in peoples lives and this is something to be proud of. It has always had a great work/life balance. And the platform / devops team was very strong. Teams worked well together and shipped product features regularly to the app stores. They had some solid product owners at the director level and below. Last CTO added a lot of good practices that were needed.

Cons

Lot of recent volatility due to historical financial debt, and GLP-1/Weight loss drugs leading to several rounds of layoffs. The company had a lot of debt that derailed the company. Not sure who or how, but definitely felt that there was lack of financial responsibility way back in the past that lead to its downturn. GLP-1/Weight loss drugs also had a big negative impact on the business, but this is not their fault. Product engineering was fragmented and siloed and lacks technical leadership.

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5.0
26 Feb 2026
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Pros

The team I was working with was extremely organized and responsive.

Cons

None. The process was very straight forward and the team was transparent.

3.0
24 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

I worked here in the 'hey day' of WW, actually from 2003-2014, but it didn't scroll back far enough for me to choose the accurate year/date! I enjoyed it and met a lot of friends and it was fun to work with the people; I helped a lot of people. It was pretty amazing and rewarding...seeing the same people every week, but only once a week (customers) and I only saw some of my co-workers once a wee too, which is great b/c sometimes that leaves enough time to miss them! haha!

Cons

It was a very underpaid job and we were running around town doing 'at works" and traveler locations...(churches, etc.) ...working at our old, big "WW Center" was really nice, during the height of Points, etc..but it was not a job where you'll save any money or get enough work. Undependable...District mgr could change your life at the drop of her hat.

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