Not worth the abuse - Senior Software Developer Fetch Employee Review

2.0
17 Jul 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The unlimited PTO is real, and line managers encourage you to take it. Individual teams / managers are supportive and positive. No set schedule or deadlines, and radical developer freedom (more on this in the cons).

Cons

Fetch has leaders who are absolutely convinced it's the best place to work in the world, and they had me fooled for a while. They tell you they care about your wellbeing, and the wellness coach does. However, they impose unreasonable standards for app performance (sometimes outside of the engineer's control) and expect a level of urgency that is completely unhealthy. Multiple times the entire tech org was expected to work through the weekend because the CTO said so. The overwork would actually be tolerable if it weren't for the public humiliation. The design reviews are really just a chance for the CTO and his favorite engineers to talk down to people and make them look/feel stupid. The CTO has also openly stated that he doesn't care about how he makes you feel and that engineers are expected to tolerate any abuse he dishes out at any time, and how he delivers that "feedback" is irrelevant. It's good pay, it was a good team, it had good benefits, but it will never be worth being publicly humiliated over the tiniest mistakes and being expected to produce perfect work or be shamed for it. There's no concept of improvement here, if it doesn't match some arbitrary standard set by the CTO, it goes in the garbage.

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5.0
2 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I've been working here for quite some time now, and I don't agree with most of these negative reviews. I know there has been a lot of change with reorgs and management, but I still have complete confidence in this company, and we have to remember this is still privately owned. The upper-level management is honest about the financial health and the reasons for their decisions. If you ask the CEO any question, he is happy to answer it. The company is doing very well and keeps pace with the current climate, constantly finding new revenue sources. If you work at Fetch and do your job well, you have job security.

Cons

I think every job in this market is a bit understaffed at the moment, so you can be extremely busy at times and have to pitch in to help other team members.

1.0
30 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fully Remote Great Individual Contributor Colleagues

Cons

This was the most disappointing job experience in my 20-year career. The product itself is distracted. They were also inconsistent in how they were reporting their user base with partners. Very dishonest. Their whole point system is weird, but purposefully weird. For example, Fetch will say 1,000 points is roughly equal to a dollar. But if you'd like to get $50 in actual cash back through a Visa gift card, you need 63,000 points. "Roughly" indeed. People in leadership positions are not who you want to work for. They lack empathy and value short-term wins over truly building long-term partnerships. My former direct boss was horrendous. She directed me to be dishonest with clients on setting realistic KPI expectations, which I refused to do. That refusal was the beginning of the end for me. Took me months to clear her mind games out of my psyche after I left. While remote work is nice, I received plenty of Slacks late at night or on weekends for matters that did not need to be tackled at those times. I'm not alone in this feeling either. I've spoken with numerous now-former Fetch employees to help them recalibrate after their own subpar experience working there.

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Thank you for taking the time to share this. We can hear how much this experience affected you, and we take that seriously. The themes you've raised around leadership empathy, boundaries between work and personal time, and a culture that genuinely welcomes honest feedback are ones we think about constantly and hold ourselves accountable to. We don't want anyone leaving Fetch feeling the way you've described, and when that happens, it matters to us regardless of the circumstances. If you're open to it, we'd welcome a direct conversation. You can reach our People Experience team at px@fetchrewards.com. We mean that genuinely, not as a way to close the loop publicly, but because the specifics you've shared deserve more than a response box. - The People Experience Team
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