Stack Overflow Engineering Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
I've really enjoyed it so far and hope to work here for a long time
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
I appreciate how open they are about sharing financial information and encouraging difficult questions from their staff
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 9 days ago
No team is perfect in any organisation, but Stack's SLT displays a level of empathy, transparency and honesty that I've never experienced before in my career (from startups to big tech). Great job to the entire leadership team!!!
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The leadership team's communication is clear and often. From what I can tell, they are transparent with our challenges as a company. There are also "office hours" sessions in our calendars that we can drop in on to interact with the leadership team.
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The initial face to face time during onboarding
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Friendly folks and they are easy to talk to
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
paying higher salaries to existing employees, company morale
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
Outside of the pay, I appreciate all the smaller pieces of our package, for example the home office setup budget and Calm subscription
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 9 days ago
pension, stock options, bonuses, medical care, educational expense reimbursement
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The money is fair, but my favourite part is the vacation schedule. There are a number of company days off, we get some extra afternoons in the summer, and extra time between Christmas and New Years on top of our regular vacation days.
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The pay, with the wifi stiped and gym contributions
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insurance 100% paid by the company
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
I don't expect compensation to be FAANG good but we should meet in the middle as far as bonuses and other comp.
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Relative to other tech companies, I think our base compensation is slightly below average, and our stock option/bonus compensation is way below average.
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if I was paid the market rate
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What are some of the best things about your team?
They've been very welcoming, any person I've interacted with has offered to help me with anything I need
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 9 days ago
collaboration, safe space, transparency, ways of working, top tier leadership from everyone
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The teams have a lot of autonomy and they all seem to have their own "personality".
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My team were very welcoming and I love that not all interactions are work specific but time is taken to chat casually as you would if you were together in person
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Extremely smart people and very self-motivated
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Everyone cares deeply about the company and product and are incredibly smart
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 9 days ago
honesty, transparency, empathy, safe space
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Stack has an inclusive culture. People seem pretty grounded and courteous. There isn't a lot of interrupting or abrasive personalities. From what I can tell, people are comfortable speaking up without fear of repercussions.
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There isn't an expectation to work way beyond your hours / weekends
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The people are really great and we try not to take work too seriously
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
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What did you like most about the interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Helping my teams is the most rewarding
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 9 days ago
Working with the best minds
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Building new cool features on such a big recognisable site
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I get to solve interesting challenges every day.
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Being able to work on a product that is helping millions of people every day
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Our code base is older and large. It takes some history with it to to be successful. I haven't yet been able to just sit down and crunch through solid tasks. Everything takes a lot of figuring out and discussion and it isn't very satisfying to work in.
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While we are working towards maturing the company, I'd like us to also look into the case studies from many other companies showing working long hours and working hard for long periods of time hurt productivity. I would like us to try 4-day work weeks as there are numerous studies showing it works
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We're losing our biggest asset: people. With so many folks leaving, and the workload being rebalanced on the remaining people, it always feels like we're in survival mode, and because those people are no more, the work environment gets a lot less exciting.
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What do you like best about your company?
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
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