High Expectations With No Onboarding or Support - Unstable Environment
Pros
Compensation is strong, with a high salary and good benefits. Perks like Cibus, gym room, and a fully equipped kitchen are genuinely nice. Some talented teammates who try their best despite the lack of structure.
Cons
The company recently fired multiple developers, including people who had only been there a few months. This is reportedly the second time such a wave of developer layoffs has happened. There is no real onboarding for developers. New hires are immediately put on large, complex tickets involving major changes to the codebase, even without proper context or support. The codebase was built by several past developers who are no longer with the company, leaving massive knowledge gaps and few people who truly understand the system. When raising concerns about the lack of onboarding and missing tools/documentation, leadership’s response was that “this is how startups operate today” and that senior developers are expected to figure everything out just by having access to the repository. This shows a misunderstanding of what productive engineering culture requires. Expectations are extremely high, but the environment provides no infrastructure—no documentation, no onboarding, unclear processes, and no technical leadership stability.
