Vantaggi
- Compensation was okay ish - Good coding standards
Svantaggi
- False advertising: Since the moment their super excited recruiters start talking to you about their supposedly wonderful and infallible company and culture, you're being lied to. Culture isn't what you say, it's what you do. After nearly a decade in the industry, thank you Relay for teaching me that. - Fake reviews on Glassdoor: Not truly fake, but most, if not all reviews are posted within 1 month of employment as part of the onboarding process. You are still being figured out at this point so you're not in hell yet to review otherwise and the cover is much better than the book - Churn: Before talking to their recruiters, please check their Median Tenure on LinkedIn. At the time of posting it's 0.8 years. That's right - most people here won't even make it a year. And that's certainly by their design - Horrible "management": A bunch of rookie developers call themselves managers here. Relay has never had real management and it shows. The "managers" here have no idea how to actually manage people and have no concept of other people having actual lives outside of work. They're only skilled at managing code Micromanagement: Not sure if this was specific to the team or the "manager" I had, but it was "my way or the highway" every single day of the week, for the tiniest of code changes. Getting my work done was contingent on the bosses availability in approving it and the boss was always busy, leading to my productivity appearing low. This goes back to them not having real managers - Absurd expectations: I was in a meeting to estimate a project once and when I called out that the deadline is a bit unrealistic, I was told something along the lines of "When we were the first developers here, we built something like this over the weekend". I am not a founder and shouldn't be expected to work like one - Zero work-life balance: Work IS life and life IS work. That should seriously be their motto. Instead, they'll spout some typical BS about it being a startup [There are other startups that care for employees' mental health - this ain't one.] Overworking and working over the weekend is not even celebrated, it's just plain expected. It is absolutely the norm - Toxic experience: My boss would literally celebrate my contributions (after I gave feedback that wins actually need to be celebrated because humans beings require motivation) but every weekly 1:1 was a conversation about how I'm running behind. This insane and endless roller-coaster ride constitutes absolutely, the most horrifying experience of my career - Return to office: This isn't exclusive to Relay but it's certainly not a positive. They are heavily mobilizing towards return to office and I'm sure they'd prefer if everyone could just eat and sleep every day in the office, with no relationships or family to step out for. There is zero wiggle room if you have an obscenely long commute. They'd rather kick you out and replace you with an intern that lives near the office
