Fetch Senior Software Developer reviews

2.5

100% would recommend to a friend

(3 total reviews)
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Wes Schroll

3% approve of CEO

3% positive business outlook

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3 reviews
3.0
Jul 23, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Promotions and opportunities are based on merit rather than seniority Not a lot of bureaucracy Can be a good place to learn new skills

Cons

Although base salary is competitive, total compensation is well below market since barely any equity is given out The tech organization isn’t in a good place. The stack is failing to scale. There isn’t any leadership. There is only autonomy with no guidance and a CTO who values criticism of ideas and results over accountability and active leadership

2.0
Jul 17, 2022

Not worth the abuse

Recommend
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Pros

The unlimited PTO is real, and line managers encourage you to take it. Individual teams / managers are supportive and positive. No set schedule or deadlines, and radical developer freedom (more on this in the cons).

Cons

Fetch has leaders who are absolutely convinced it's the best place to work in the world, and they had me fooled for a while. They tell you they care about your wellbeing, and the wellness coach does. However, they impose unreasonable standards for app performance (sometimes outside of the engineer's control) and expect a level of urgency that is completely unhealthy. Multiple times the entire tech org was expected to work through the weekend because the CTO said so. The overwork would actually be tolerable if it weren't for the public humiliation. The design reviews are really just a chance for the CTO and his favorite engineers to talk down to people and make them look/feel stupid. The CTO has also openly stated that he doesn't care about how he makes you feel and that engineers are expected to tolerate any abuse he dishes out at any time, and how he delivers that "feedback" is irrelevant. It's good pay, it was a good team, it had good benefits, but it will never be worth being publicly humiliated over the tiniest mistakes and being expected to produce perfect work or be shamed for it. There's no concept of improvement here, if it doesn't match some arbitrary standard set by the CTO, it goes in the garbage.

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