Anyone considering a role at WorkWave, specifically in product design, deserves to be able to make an informed choice.
Salaries fall very far below market rate. This was widely known and openly discussed internally. Annual raises of ~3% (if any) mean that your compensation actually loses significant value over time. Loyalty to the company means your salary diminishes with each passing year. Raises don’t come close to offsetting cost of living increases, inflation, etc. My honest advice is to shop around, know your worth, and don’t become complacent if you do join.
No bonus structure below management level, and no WFH stipend.
Disorganization at the leadership level tends to roll downhill. Rather than collaborating to solve problems, blame tends to land on whoever has the least authority. Not worth it especially given the compensation and everything else at play.
Product design’s leadership warrants particular attention. During my tenure, a new member of product design’s leadership used Glassdoor on 4/2/2026 not to evaluate the company, but to praise themselves while disparaging colleagues, notably during an active HR investigation into their own conduct. I’d STRONGLY encourage anyone considering this team to find that review and decide whether that’s a leadership style you will thrive under. I have no personal feelings about it, however it’s critical you understand the leadership team’s culture and personality. I think they did a really good job laying that out in their review and I applaud their transparency.
Multiple rounds of layoffs eliminated almost all engineers who knew our legacy codebase, as well as QA. Offshore contractors with no familiarity with the code and no overlapping time zone hours were brought in to fill the gap. Layoffs were also handled without any transparency. The only way to know if a colleague was let go was to search their name in Slack and see if the account had been deactivated. Leadership was told specifically they were not allowed to say who was laid off. High visibility projects were affected, but deadlines remained intact. This isn’t an isolated way of handling things here.
Work/life balance will be poor if a low salary means that you need to fill the gap by other means outside of normal working hours.
On a personal note: the circumstances that pushed me to leave ultimately opened better doors, and for that I’m genuinely grateful. Not really a con in my opinion though.
