Once the envy of competitors, now just a meme in competitors' Slack chats. Remote is a broken company, a former shell of its former self. If you're considering multiple offers and Remote.com is one of them, reject it and consider a better option. You'll save yourself from gaslighting, toxicity, and stress. The ship is sinking fast, with every day serving as a reminder that even rock bottom has a basement with Remote's name on it.
Remember when you accept an offer at a company like Remote, you're trusting them to pay your salary. It's toxic co-founders and terrible leaders leverage this against employees, hence you will never experience a more unstable, erratic employer that cannot be trusted, that will wear your mental health down. You'll feel job insecurity like never before and wonder if and when you will be fired. I've been at Remote for over 3 years so have seen it fall from grace. I, and I'm sure many people reading this, have more respect for ourselves than to put up with such an awful employer like Remote.
I warn anybody reading the glossy handbook or fake reviews, Remote is not what it used to be which is evident from the number of thumbs up on real reviews here on glassdoor.
Remote started as a great company to work for. They followed human values, and the workplace culture, although challenging, was exciting and visionary, reflected well in the company's growth. After witnessing Remote self-implode over the past 4 years, several crucial problems have led to its ultimate downfall.
A Portuguese 'boys club' exists among various ranks, creating endless political issues. For a company that spreads messages about inclusivity and fairness, Remote is rife with internal cultural politics, including judgment based on your accent and origin. Their hiring practices are discriminatory, excluding high-cost and high-talent places like New York, San Francisco, London, and other major cities in favor of lower-cost economies. This has resulted in inexperienced individuals occupying senior positions for minimal pay. Or worse, hires being made from toxic individuals who instil an awful culture beneath them.
There's so much gaslighting at Remote. It's common for people to be given severance or orchestrated performance management low reviews. If you know too much or a deep expert, you'll be replaced for people who don't ask questions or don't look strategically at the consequences of short term decisions that are rife in Remote.
The President co-founder flip-flops around roles due to his inexperience in business. He resorts to picking enemies dependent on the day of the week and is known for his tantrums. A leader with no vision, direction, or strategy, he relies on top-down finger-pointing and blame. He fosters a culture of tribes and toxicity where you're just a number, told what to do, and reminded that you can be replaced. "If you don't like it, take the severance" is a famous phrase used in company-wide Loom recordings. The other co-fonder starting to take a similar approach.
In a company where the design function reports into engineering, it tells you all you need to know. This means teams lack true support to challenge the board and co-founders. It's created a systemic toxicity where feedback only works one way—if any stakeholder is seen to 'block engineering,' all hell breaks loose. On the flip side, Engineering are made to work long and hard hours in the name of ‘Intensity’.
Benefits are basic at the country level, offering the bare minimum on top of tight pay bands that aren't competitive in the wider job market. Remote takes advantage of people who aren't near cities where jobs are readily available as a method of 'retaining talent.' Good people endure the toxic culture while remaining deeply unhappy as they’re unable to find a better job in their local areas.
Recently, the 'unlimited PTO' perk was reduced to a recommended 30-day policy, where anything above must be approved by expensive C-Suite committee meetings—clearly a way to discourage holidays beyond 30 days but gaslit as being still ‘unlimited’.
So what about working at Remote? You'll receive no trust from leadership, face micromanagement, and be scapegoated for the failings of your inexperienced leadership team. Many people disappear without notice, mainly due to behind-the-scenes severances and silent layoffs. When a company decides to get rid of so many people, you realize the company is the problem, not the individuals.
There are no pay increases or bonuses and promotions are nearly unheard of, so expect your career, growth, and pay to stagnate working at Remote. You'll have to beg, borrow, and steal for any kind of money. If you like this culture, negotiate hard at the start and don't back down—they'll never offer to increase your salary after you join.
Daily life consists of a facade of fire drills where everything is urgent and important. Whilst everybody is burned out, the other co-founder left a 2025 strategy Loom explaining it's going to be an even more intense year, asking everyone to "step it up another gear." Combined with a lack of company strategy and direction, this has prompted good talent to leave for far better companies as they realize their own worth.
I’ve never worked at such an unprofessional, demoralizing place, with incompetent leadership where middle and lower management are scapegoated so that the senior layer can protect their own behinds and retain their own jobs and mask their poor performance, skill and ability in their own roles.
