Federato Reviews

Everything that could go wrong went wrong: * Horrendous cultural. Management was constantly lying and berating employees for ridiculous, pie-in-the-sky deadlines. Zero empathy or care from the CEO, pretty sure he is a psychopath that read one too many Elon Musk news articles. * The product is a sham, and customers were lied to. Employess know it. Management know it. Hence morale was low. * Zero growth opportunities. The place is run as a sweat shop: expect to be hired, used for everything you got, then dumped into the world again, but only this time as a shell of your former self. All they care about is getting the ARR up as fast as possible so they can swindle some unknowing acquiring buyer in a few months. Do yourself a favor and take your talent elsewhere. Maybe I'm coming off as some disgruntled employee here. But the fact of the matter is, while I was at Federato and after, I rarerly came across another employee who did not have the same sentiments as me. People were and are terrified to speak their minds their. And understandably so: the management has made ex-employees sign a whole host of legal documents to not defame the company. If you are a potential candidate/customer, all you need to ask anyone there is this: what is the turnover at the company, what is the product, and is the CEO an honest/kind leader? Good luck...

As a senior engineer, I was additionally made a team lead and the owner of two clients. This involved me working 12-16 hour days daily, as well as most weekends, as there wasn't enough time in an 8 hour day to be an engineer, a manager, and a product manager. My days would often consist of 50% meetings, and my 10 day sprints would often consist of 20+ points (with one point being equivalent to one day of work). On top of the insane workload, I had to balance running 1:1s with my team, writing and refining tickets as I was the only senior engineer on my team, as well as gathering requirements from customers to write future tickets. Federato has no semblance of work/life balance whatsoever, and it is expected that every engineer is putting in overtime consistently to meet deadlines that are far too aggressive for the talent and size of the team. Additionally, engineers that were deemed "low performers" were immediately fired with no sort of performance improvement plan system in-place to help them recover, and high-performing engineers weren't promoted