Toxic, Virtue Signaling Culture - Software Engineer Dutchie Employee Review

2.0
7 Nov 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Pay was okay, but that was offset by other factors - It was a cool place at one point - In engineering your experience is shaped by the team you are on - Benefits were pretty good - Unlimited PTO (...but come on, they monitor it, there are limits that are suggested) - remote first - they try to maintain culture with fun meetings, if such a thing exists - if you give them enough you can get promoted pretty quickly

Cons

- Employees talk about salaries, you know when you're being underpaid. I know good engineers who were getting paid less than others that didn't pull their weight. This seemed to be based on favoritism, or the misguided assumption that they had leverage over the employee. - Convos about paybands has been on going for sometime, no release and it seems like they have allowed pay disparities based on performance to continue. - There is a lot of immaturity, I've seen it go both ways from leadership and employees - A lot of politics make it in to the work place, things said that make people uncomfortable in meetings - There is definitely bias & preferential treatment. You need to be careful when giving feedback to certain people. It will either be knocked down, not heard, or explained away on skip levels.

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5.0
17 Dec 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Fun place to work, interesting field and nice new tech stack, great coworkers, leadership is not half bad, most diverse workplace I've ever been in.

Cons

The work life balance can be great at times and bad at others. It is very team dependent though. Your requirements shift quickly. Obsessed with AI and optimization.

1.0
16 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

From what I heard, it used to be a phenomenal culture, but I joined just a week or two after the first major round of layoffs. The hostile company takeover was soon to follow then many rounds of layoffs to come.

Cons

A couple of very large, public layoffs, but to later avoid press - the rest were weekly, but small enough to avoid public notice which meant they were never acknowledged even within the company. Working weekends and taking calls to your personal cell number at night for extra work is smiled upon. Company at a complete loss of direction and there seems to be no desire for actual data or for things to work. It's like they want more on paper to show investors or something - it's actually unbelievable how little the company now does while completely overworking everyone.

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