I have an offer from SNAP. Base 195 Equity: 178K/yr YOE: 8 Level: L4 Location: Palo Alto Bonus: SNAP bonus structure is too complicated, and only top 25% get, so let's just assume it's 0 Competing Offers: None Yet to hear from Meta but they are slow in process and I have to respond back to SNAP by early next week. I wanted to understand general thoughts about SNAP at this point in time. The sentiments I have gathered so far seems very negative. Most blind posts have negative sentiments. My interviewers also looked pretty negative in energy. One of my interviewer said, things are okay, people cannot leave because there is not much job in market. I remember reading somewhere on blind that one person got laid off just after 2 months of joining. For another friend of mine, his recruiter got laid off during his interview process but that was 1.5yr ago. So is snap really in a bad phase, or because stocks has fallen so badly in past 1.5yrs that people lost ton of money, which is reflecting in sentiments? I also see lots of job posts on LINKEDIN from SNAP, so is there a change in business strategy and potentially some upside(with new products, releases). Surprisingly, the sentiment on glassdoor is relatively on positive end, with most post in past 2-3months have good things to say like good team, good work culture, good WLB, and the only negative feedback is, unfocussed leadership/management. For votes, you can select multiple options. Team matching yet to happen. #tech #snap #SNAPCHAT
location? YOE?
level offered at SNAP?
Same offer as me. I accepted it because I felt good about the manager and the stock price is quite low
Most negative comments about snap have been posted by one single account on blind 😅. Probably got their grant at $80 and now hating themselves.
The snap lounge is quite negative internally
Can vouch that it's pretty negative, but don't have another internal channel to compare it to.
I know a few people there, not a single one of them has anything good to say about snap. Some got filthy rich from 2021 either left or doing nothing at the company atm. At any rate i heard that indian managers there are extremely incompetent and prefer to manage out people they don’t like and hire their buddies. I personally saw it in the past at another firm so i’d recommend avoid if your manager is indian and you aren’t
This is actually true. There is like a couple levels of Indian managers that basically only hire their friends. And then if one of the Indians under them get a bad review, it gets swept under the rug from the skip level. Ever since the performance evaluation structure changed so that only your manager's review counts, there is no recourse for employees. I have seen Muslim employees straight up managed out and fired. It's pretty wild. Also impossible in general to get promotion L4-L6. L7 can get to L9 in 2 years.
Yup next time do the same to them
That was me who got laid off 2 months in! I got rehired a week later lol
I don’t think the environment is toxic. Most people at snap actually like snap. It’s the crap that precipitates from our struggling business that makes it stressful (higher than usual bars for performance, risk of PIP, risk of layoff).
Our new products have all failed or probably will. No one bought Spectacles, and any AR HW will have serious competition. The Pixy selfie drone also sold poorly and was killed pretty quick. ARES, our group working on Augmented Reality Enterprise Solutions, was announced around March this year and killed at the end of September. They laid off 170 people working on it. Check this thread for more info from multiple Snap employees: [Blind] Check out this post! Snap hiring a lot of iOS eng now? (Software Engineering Career) https://www.teamblind.com/us/s/AyReuywL
lol who voted good work culture?? This place is miserable.
Need more offer/team details to better evaluate