Chowly Reviews

The “leadership” at Chowly is practically non existent and full of people both bad at their jobs but desperate to cling to power. I watched multiple employees complain about new management hires who have been completely absent from their duties months into the role. The response from leadership: “we can’t admit we made a mistake hiring these people so deal with it”. The result: a huge exodus of engineering talent resulting in a skeleton crew managing multiple services. The fact that the CTO position at a technology company has been empty for over a year speaks for itself. Avoid!

- Engineers were expected to be able to work on any part of the system with not much specialization. Hopefully that changed recently - The company is only interested in what you can do for them and not you developing in your career as an engineer, so any career development is up to you - A small group of engineers retains most of the legacy knowledge but are extremely busy as a result - Tech and product leadership leaves a lot to be desired, this engineering culture felt more like a 90s sales company with middle managers that delegate their job duties and not like a tech company in '23 - Mixed messaging regarding what you should focus on. Support or roadmap? Roadmap or support? - Watched a lot of really good talent leave because of all of these things