Grailed Reviews

Engineering management acts like their employees are friends or unfit servants. Opportunities are granted exclusively by tenure or friendship -- never considering ability or track record. Intense 'insiders club' culture -- where not being an insider means you are being precisely monitored, by the second, for failure. You will be micromanaged - asked for constant status updates - until you feel sick. Culture rewards incompetency - hard work is actively punished. Expect to be sabotaged, mercilessly, at every single turn. Senior engineers get zero responsibility -- just 'code tickets.' It's absolute utter insanity. I've never experienced such toxicity in a tech culture in my life & I have been in industry for many years at many companies.

Egregiously fake reviews for 1) lol. Remember a fairly new recruiter quitting one day randomly, friendly guy and noticeably annoyed, and wouldn’t be surprised if it was because the team engages in questionable bs like that. 2) Laying off a bunch of people with no warning 3) A lot of the mostly fun people who were here are gone, laid off or left. It seems like there were a mix of a-holes (few, but primary ones were in ‘management’ positions so they set the tone) and the chill/fun people, but some of the latter were enablers. I remember the first time chatting with a lead (Karen-esque person), she very much wanted to negate what I said in our convo on something trivial, which was weird. Next interaction, all of her questions were just passive aggressive sizing up / negging. All other convos w coworkers when meeting them were particularly welcoming and friendly, ‘what are you doing this weekend,’ ‘what music are you into.’ Had other experiences w her that I won’t share, but can just say this person was surprisingly bitter from jump lol. 4) Gross, but kind of subtle bro culture as mentioned. I noticed the vibe around the remaining women in somewhat leading roles was not really supportive, but at least being publicly antagonistic wouldn’t fly here. 5) I more recently realized there seemed to be a gossipy culture as well. There’s a phrase ‘intellectualize your hate,’ where you try to rationalize unjustified, negative feelings towards someone by projecting characteristics or similar, making your poor behavior feel justified. I have a feeling that applies to a few folks at Grailed. So overall not a fan, but at least when I was there it was kind of fun. Learned a lot from the people who I ‘reported’ to directly and felt positively towards them during my time there. Really disappointed in people too, but most other workplaces suck more. Hate to rehash bad vibes, but sure this is the helpful/correct thing to do