Horrendous Tech and Culture - Software Engineer Coinbase Employee Review

1.0
13 Dec 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay and remote work

Cons

This is unequivocally the worst Company I’ve ever worked for. Our tech is horrendous, everything is over engineered garbage. It got 100x worse with AI tools. Nobody knows what is going on, systems lack solid design and organization. We pride ourselves on hiring “top talent” but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Every project has 20 project managers who weigh in on things they do not understand and have no translation to actual implementation. Prepare to be gaslit and tormented by idiotic managers who have never written a single code line. I’ve been here only a few months and I am trying to get my old job back. If you are smart and love engineering, your soul will be buried here and you’ll burn out. Every project has a 1 month deadline and then you deal with “incidents” into perpetuity instead of management just having proper 6 month timelines like literally every other Company on earth. Corporate politics are absolutely infested, dirty tactics and work ways run rampant here.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

- Very interesting technical challenges - A LOT of autonomy (could be a con) - Amazing perks (WFH stipend, random gifts all the time) - Very smart colleagues - Great communication all around the company - Exciting - Brilliant CEO and engineering execs - A lot of useful education and automation regarding processes

Cons

- There is a lot of autonomy so if you're the kind of person who needs the work to be handed to you, you'll have to adjust - Since crypto is a very fast paced field, you will often have multiple projects on the go at the same time so work-life balance is usually relatively bad, although the company does offer re-charge days (and weeks) so that we can all take time off. - This is the biggest con: you get assessed if you're "on-track" or "off-track" every quarter, if you're "off-track", you have 60 days to fix it. Quite an aggressive stance, similar to Amazon's PIP program which is notoriously toxic.

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