Disorganized leadership and a culture that drags people down - Avis employé Employé (anonyme) Figma

2,0
24 sept. 2025
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Avantages

*A well-known brand in the design space and a great product that is genuinely respected in the market. *Benefits

Inconvénients

Figma’s product has a great reputation, but the internal culture is very different. Leadership is disorganized and constantly shifts strategies, leaving teams with no stability or clear direction. It often felt like no one at the top had a plan, and people were left scrambling to adapt to changes that didn’t stick for long. Micromanagement is everywhere. Instead of trusting people to do their jobs, managers nitpick small details and focus heavily on what’s wrong, while ignoring effort and progress. Feedback tends to be late, inconsistent, and almost always negative, which creates an anxious and demoralizing environment. It felt like managers were more interested in controlling people than actually helping them develop or succeed. Overall, it did not seem like the supportive, innovative workplace it tries to present on the outside. Behind the brand is a leadership team that lacks direction, the culture feels controlling and demoralising, and employees end up undervalued instead of empowered.

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5,0
3 juin 2026
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Avantages

- great culture - impactful team

Inconvénients

- actually i enjoyed my time at Figma

2,0
20 mars 2026
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Avantages

* decent work life balance. I don't think there's a hustle culture per se * leadership is exceptionally smart and personable (but see issues on execution below) * humble eng team, few egos

Inconvénients

My biggest shock when I joined this company was just how bad the execution on the product team actually is. I had assumed a company with a beloved product must have an excellent product org, but far from it! Seems like most of Figma's successes were accidental, or due to some early engineers' visionary work. Mainly, this company does not know how to ship AI products incrementally. Specifically the org that builds Figma AI is constantly stuck in the cycle of: * CEO gets scared by something on Twitter * Product engineers rush to build a demo for new features that'll "save the company" * Prototype gets rushed, customers are unhappy * Overpaid team of PhD researchers gets pulled in to hill climb on quality, but takes too long to make meaningful progress * Customers get even more angry * Product team adds(!) scope * The market has moved on to the next shiny AI thing * We scrap the project, or are asked to do the next, even bigger thing * ... and so on, ad infinitum, but no meaningful AI products ever ship. But hey, they pay pretty well!

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