Don't Ever Join Here. You would regret it forever. - Software Development Engineer (SDE) FlytBase Employee Review

1.0
27 Feb 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Only good thing can be if you can stay alive here after working day and night.

Cons

This list is endless. They have the worst management ever. The CEO and Director of Engineering are the most toxic people here and want to micromanage everyone. They don't think about employees at all. They pressurize you to do everything they think they are right and they have got equally toxic investors which make them do it. You won't enjoy working either as the product is sh** and they won't at all focus on building it. Pay is below industry standards for a startup as the product is below par. They want you work as if this is your company but they won't give you salary or esops for it. They are just playing a CON game by selling worst product to customers and taking out money from them. Their competitor is much better and they won't be able to catch them at all. A good company has a good glassdoor rating which this company don't. So it is obvious everything is bad in this company. They just layoff people every week as if the employees are at fault. This company would shut down very soon.

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FlytBase Response
1y
We acknowledge this review and the emotion behind it. While we disagree with the accusations and tone, it's worth clarifying a few principles we operate by—because they often get misunderstood in high-intensity environments. FlytBase is a company built at the intersection of AI, autonomy, and real-world systems. That means we operate at a pace, standard, and level of ambition that’s not comfortable for everyone—and we don’t pretend otherwise. We don’t run on hierarchy or micromanagement. We run on context, ownership, and clarity of purpose. Leaders don’t issue commands—they set direction, challenge assumptions, and expect teams to move fast with high autonomy. That may feel intense to some. To others, it feels like freedom. We also don’t believe in guaranteed stability. We believe in alignment, performance, and accountability—across the board. If someone is not aligned with our mission, not delivering outcomes, or resisting the way we work, we act quickly. That’s not exploitation—it’s operational clarity. As for our product, it speaks for itself: autonomous drone deployments running across industries and geographies, driven by customers who stay and scale with us. Yes, we’ve made hard decisions. Yes, we’ve let go of people. But always with transparency, respect, and clarity—not with blame, not with games, and certainly not to "make money." We’re not optimizing for optics. We’re optimizing for momentum. That doesn’t make us perfect. But it does make us deliberate.

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5.0
24 Apr 2022
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Pros

Good problems, great team, no-nonsense culture

Cons

Fast-paced startup culture might get hectic if you are not one who enjoys the work.

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1.0
12 Nov 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Other than getting overworked, there are no pros

Cons

1. They have a bunch of people in their upper management who don't really respect your time and disregard it 2. It has a toxic work culture, there is a lot of blame game that goes on most of the times. Its sad that they don't really look at the positive part most of the times 3. They keep impossible to achieve deadlines which then makes you work until late night 4. They don't really let you live your life outside work. It is believed that mostly everything should revolve around work. 5. Lastly, its mentally traumatizing to work there. And its because of the work culture

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FlytBase Response
3y
We are sorry that you did not enjoy being a part of our team. As a team building global products and challenging the status quo, we are an intense workplace and have a very high bar in terms of pushing ourselves, learning fast and creating a better version of ourselves every single day. This is super-exciting for some people who love to discover something new everyday, and push their limits to build strength. At the same time, some others (who chose to compare it with large/slow orgs) find this fast pace to be unreasonable. FlytBase is not a place for everyone. Think of it like going to the gym - it is painful for some, but super-fun for others. While some people are "excited" to go to the gym everyday, others find that experience "painful" and "exhausting". It is still the same gym. However, people would describe their experience very differently, based on their personal choices/preferences. We wish you the best and hope that you were able to find an ideal place for yourself.
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