Great colleagues overshadowed by poor management and layoffs - Lead Software Engineer Agreena Employee Review

2.0
12 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

There was a good bunch of people working there

Cons

So many redundancies. Was almost 300 people working there 2 years ago. Now around 60. Baffling technology decisions. Goal seemed to be set a load of money on fire and make velocity as slow as possible. Unnecessary layers of management. Senior team essentially sandboxed from rest of company. No idea what CTO did day to day. Never involved in technical decision making.

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5.0
11 Dec 2023
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
19 Apr 2026
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Pros

Wonderful people, truly dedicated and believed in what they worked towards. Great work-life balance. Patient, sympathetic and understanding middle-management.

Cons

ELT, especially the CEO. Bombastic speeches at a million words a minute and after all of that you are left with 'what was even the point of all of that?' kind of feeling. Bad planning and a severe lack of foresight in a sector which is already very saturated and experiencing a lot of difficulty. Which ultimately leads to multiple layoffs over the span of 2 years, the latest one at the start of 2026. Continuous rumours of layoffs, quiet exits of some valued technical people led to low morale among the surviving few. Outside of a few remaining technical personnel, the company is effectively made of of salespeople trying to sell what is left and not succeeding because of a very small market to begin with.

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