People at Braze, can I ask for your help? Just got offered a position at Braze. How is the company doing now? Risk of rifs? How is the wlb, especially on SRE teams. TC: 244k YOE: 11 #braze #faang #sre #tech #startup #twitter #meta #google #microsoft #amazon
Relatively new here, but this is the first company where I actively reach out to ex coworkers and ask them if they are interested to join. Good wlb overall - it really is prioritized as a culture. From the SRE angle - don’t know too much, but we do work with very high volumes of data and traffic. It would likely be good experience but there will also be some on-call and opportunities for you to come in and improve the system.
Thanks a lot for the answer. Appreciate the feedback. Indeed my interview went great and really liked the feedback so far.
Best company that I have worked for personally. Wlb is prioritized. Great camaraderie and strong leadership. As far as RIF highly unlikely imo.
Thanks a lot! This feedback means a lot to me.
Great company. WLB is usually very reasonable. Don’t think a RIF is happening but as the above said never say never.
Thanks a lot for speaking up for Braze. Loved the interview as well, sent the offer back for reneg a little on the RSU side, otherwise everything looks great. Thanks again :))
Reiterating everything said above. 4 years in and loving braze every day still. Can’t speak to SRE WLB but pretty good in my experience
Thanks a lot! In general the general company culture matters a lot, so yeah am glad to learn that its super positive from everyone who works there.
Ditto with everyone else. Also not an SRE, but for a different perspective: there are very few SREs in the company, so expectations aren’t quite as standardized as SWEs. You’ll get the most out of it if you’re a more alpha, direction setting type of person.
Thanks for the info anf heads up. Appreciate your help.
Is Braze still actively hiring ?
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I personally really enjoy Braze. We have the sanest leadership of any co I worked for in a long time, wlb is great (don’t know about sre specifically), coworkers are all fun to work with, comp is better than to be expected considering the wlb. As for RIF, no tech company is safe these days but Braze is in a better position than many other tech companies. We did better than expected last earnings and we are b2b which means our bottom line won’t be impacted until our customers have already been hit.
Thanks for the response. Recently got the offer. I liked the HM and the team, so am considering the offer very seriously.
@wayfair : are you joining as staff in their sre?