Fantastic Company until new CEO - Software Engineer Mural Employee Review

1.0
Jun 2, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Great benefits such as yearly stipend for wellness, learning, etc. -Incredibly diverse company -Has some fantastic people, but many of them (about 50%) are gone now

Cons

-CEO and ELT have no idea what they're doing and do not understand the product. We spent the past 6 months basically doing nothing because of a lack of direction and no freedom to act autonomously. This was not an issue when Mariano (the founder) was the CEO and leader of the company -Lots of inconsistent code standards. Very little documentation within the code itself. There used to be a great environment of collaboration, but the CEO went out of his way to kill it. -DevOps practices as awful and will often serve as the primary blocker when you attempt to ship code -Company no longer has a vision. The new CEO is clearly looking to strip the company and sell it for parts. You can blame one person for why this company was ruined.

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Human focused team that cares about each other

Cons

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2.0
May 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great people and at least when I joined very international

Cons

When I started I loved it, then the changes in the company and the tech debt gradually killed my soul. Priorities and values kept shifting. Too much code built on top of spaghetti and many have VERY strong opinions about standards that often conflict. I give a low d&i rating because it seemed to me they were pushing out international engineers in favor of US. I can understand wanting your employees to all be on the same page in terms of language, culture, etc. but as a developer in the US, I think it's arrogant and short-sighted to assume that engineers in the US, particularly the bay area are somehow inherently better.

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