Truth about better.com’s culture

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Apr 1, 2021 41 Comments

Hi all, I am reading blind posts about better.com and their culture. The people who I spoke with in my interview rounds were super chill. I know that they were just 4/4000 people at the company, but can someone at better.com speak more about the culture? Is it as bad Blind posts make it out to be?

fwiw I ended up declining the offer because the numbers didn’t work out, but I am so curious. It was rated number 1 place to work on LinkedIn. It has high scores on glassdoor. Why do I hear a different things on Blind ?



EDIT: these comments were helpful. Looks like everyone at better.com is chill , nice and gives off positive vibes. I just read a few negative comments on Blind and let that get stuck in my head.

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  • The engineering culture here has been great, I’ve been here for a while relative to most at the company. I think most of the negativity is coming from people in sales/ops orgs. People are smart/friendly. I’m in a very high responsibility/impact role but still manage to work ~40 hours per week. People here seem to value WLB. Things do change very quickly though, eng org grew like 5x in a year, but hasn’t been a negative change yet, the orgs been getting more structured in a positive way imo.
    Apr 1, 2021 13
    • They don’t adjust for COL rn. You’d probably end up somewhere around 200k base and 20-25k units at L6. Could probably get a signing bonus too. They’re fairly rigid with the structure.
      Apr 3, 2021
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      Yeah I know. I am saying I would, since it was a remote position.
      Apr 3, 2021
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    I agree with Breadator. I'm also in engineering and Better has been the best company I've ever worked for. I've been here for less than a year, but wlb and culture has been amazing from my first day to present day.

    An example of Better respecting wlb would be that during my few months of employment, cpo sent out company wide emails twice so far telling us to take a Monday off on week x. She actually sent one out this week to take a Monday next next week off.
    Apr 2, 2021 2
  • You’ll be shielded in eng so I wouldn’t worry too much about it. That being said just be aware the CEO and CPO are incompetent POS having worked with them closely. I wouldn’t put my money in Better stock knowing Vishal and Elana would rather drag the company to the ground over spite.

    Wouldn’t be surprised if the board decided to kick both of them off.

    Management is incredibly toxic but I don’t think it’ll affect your day to day in engineering too much.
    Apr 5, 2021 6
  • I’ve been here a few months and love it. Great work life balance, able to get resources as needed to make project successful and it feels like their is a ton of upward mobility with this fast growing company.
    Apr 2, 2021 1
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      refreshing to hear.
      We had downward mobility at Lyft last year . And by that I mean layoffs
      Apr 2, 2021
  • I also agree, only been a couple of months but there is a ton happening, a lot of interesting challenges, really good wlb so far. A management team that actually gives a shit. There is plenty of room to have impact on a each team, sure we've grown but we are still a very lean engineering org.
    Apr 2, 2021 2
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      Re:leadership - the hiring manager came across as very empathetic , in line with what you are saying
      Apr 2, 2021
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      Engineering is where you wanna live otherwise it’s a giant hell hole disguised with benefits at better.

      Sales and ops is the wild Wild West.
      Apr 17, 2021