How is the culture at Snapchat?

Facebook / Eng
cryptoad

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cryptoad
Apr 7, 2021 16 Comments

I'm getting reach outs from a Snap's recruiter. How is the WLB, Xfn collaboration. Have you every had a burnout because of the work pressure?

Do you get support from your manager and team members?

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  • Snap
    🚀 snap 🚀

    Go to company page Snap

    🚀 snap 🚀
    Hey I came here from FB. My main concern is that the code base and infra is terrible. Things you could do at FB easily take a lot longer to do at Snap. This has resulted in me working harder and longer, and it’s more tedious type of work because it’s things you take for granted at FB. The trade off here is, code reviews typically accept a lower standard.

    So I feel as if I am poorly coding just to make things work, instead of making very high quality code.

    I’ve been here almost a year. XFN support is pretty thin since so many projects are concurrently going on. FB much better supported here.

    That being said, I can’t complain. TC is 800K. It’s worth the trade off. Snap is also investing in infra and refractors to correct these issues. They should be in a good spot in a few years. There’s so many opportunities to be part of the improvement. At FB, you find yourself digging for things to do. At Snap, you’ll do well, because you’ve seen the problems FB has already solved. You can help solve them here and get recognition.
    Apr 7, 2021 11
  • Amazon
    zonmoney

    Go to company page Amazon

    zonmoney
    WLB for the most part is fantastic - burnout is definitely a possibility, you have to be mindful and take care of yourself. Snap has a small engineering team with some strong ambitions which can very easily lead to taking on large projects that have aggressive timelines - do this enough.. it's a recipe for burnout.

    Xfn can be great, it can be frustrating - always a pain when a large partner changes priorities in the middle of a quarter. For the most part, have had a wonderful time working with partner teams.

    I get support from my team and managers.

    Code quality comments are definitely team based..

    Snap is small, and definitely behind in tooling - however, I haven't encountered a scenario where it's required me to reinvent a wheel (some times it means you have to productionize a team's library because they aren't staffed to do it and you require it lol - however, how often does that happen?).

    I came from Amazon, been my favorite place to work at to date.
    Apr 7, 2021 0
  • Airbnb
    think_loud

    Go to company page Airbnb

    think_loud
    Why are you moving to Snap? They don’t have stacked refreshers
    Apr 7, 2021 2