DoorLoop

1,0

2 ago 2025

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Gradimento del CEO

Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

- Some team members are genuinely kind and try to do their best under challenging conditions. - If you are early in your career and want exposure to a struggling codebase, you may learn what not to do.

Svantaggi

- Technical debt: The product was built without senior technical leadership, resulting in a fragile, outdated, and hard-to-maintain codebase. Significant effort is spent on refactoring legacy features, with little time allocated to meaningful innovation. - Misleading role: While marketed as a full-stack position, the vast majority of work involves frontend tasks, leaving little room for backend or architectural responsibilities. - Micro-management: Despite initial promises of autonomy, the culture is heavily micro-managed. Daily worklogs, frequent Slack interruptions, excessive meetings, and rigid QA/testing demands significantly slow productivity. - Work environment: The office is noisy, with loud music, and distractions are frequent. When raising legitimate concerns, some employees faced pushback or questionable performance critiques rather than support. - Management disconnect: Leadership is largely unresponsive to developer feedback. HR does not effectively advocate for employee well-being or fairness. - Compensation: Pay is below market average, which is surprising considering recent funding rounds.

Risposta di DoorLoop

9mo

Thank you for sharing your feedback. We take it seriously and value open communication at DoorLoop. We remain dedicated to a respectful, supportive environment where every team member feels valued and empowered. DoorLoop has achieved product–market fit by moving fast as a lean startup. We're now in hypergrowth and are we’re scaling teams, processes, and systems while tackling the natural challenges of rapid expansion. Our Tech Org has grown by more than 100% from less than 40 to nearly 80 employees in the past year, and the whole DoorLoop team has grown nearly 50% from 150 to over 220 employees. We continue to invest in strong technical leadership, evolving our architecture toward microservices and autonomous squads, launching a new AI squad to drive cutting-edge innovation, bringing in leadership for our growing DevOps team, and building an infrastructure squad. Working at a fast-growing startup is not for everyone. While scaling brings challenges, it also creates immense opportunities for innovation and growth. We are actively hiring top talent to help us scale even faster, but need to make sure that have the right kind of people on our team who love and thrive in this environment. We make mistakes, but we are committed to learning, adjusting, and improving. If you want to reach out and discuss your experience in more detail, please feel free. While we are sorry that you are frustrated that we had to part ways, we wish you all the best in your future career.

Poor leadership, overwhelming tech debt, and toxic culture - Recensione dipendente - Senior Software Engineer presso DoorLoop

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