Pros
There aren't many good things about this company anymore. There are a few good people left here, but this company is running on empty.
Cons
I could write a novel about what an unmitigated disaster this company has become over the past year, but I'll keep it to a select few bullet points. This is coming from the perspective of an engineer that has been at Guild for over 3 years: - From an architectural point of view, engineering is an absolute joke. A select few architects and staff engineers championed a mish-mash of horrible serverless technologies and micro-frontends. Slowly but surely, the walls have been caving in and ongoing development has become an absolute nightmare. Feature development is grinding to a halt. - While I do feel DEI is an important part of our hiring process, Guild over-indexes on it so intensely that it's unequivocally damaged any hope for a bar of engineering excellence in favor of meeting quotas. Instead of hiring based on skill set, we hire based on...you know what. We have several staff level engineers, for example, that haven't the slightest clue how to implement the most basic of features yet they continuously fail their way to the top because of WHO they are instead of WHAT they can do. - The product management team seems like they're running around with their heads cut off. I haven't found a single PM at this company that can articulate a product's vision more than 1-2 months in the future. Instead, what you'll find (as an engineer) is you're constantly trying to put out fires for frantic PMs that have failed to execute on any long term goals, but need to save face for their managers. For some reason, Guild continues to place trust in the product team. Why? I don't know. - The politics at the management level (and above) are at an all time high. All the good EMs have either been laid off or have left. The majority that remain are just emailers and paper pushers trying to shift blame and dodge being targeted of any responsibility. As an engineer, you'd be hard pressed to find an EM at Guild anymore that can provide paths for growth for their reports, or constructive and/or meaningful feedback to help the team improve. - The executive leadership team seems confused, lost, or malicious (perhaps a combination or all 3). In my 3 years, I've seen so many re-orgs, layoffs (latest of 25%) and 'culture shifts' that I truly have lost count. - Instead of working together, Guild has devolved into a Lord of the Flies environment. People hoarding knowledge, for the sake of their own job security. Back-stabbing behavior amongst teams and between teams. I'm sitting here trying to reflect on where it all went wrong, but it seems like death by a 1000 paper cuts. To anyone considering a position at Guild, I cannot stress enough that you strongly consider all of the above points. That's just the tip of the iceberg.