Honest, transparent, fun, and high growth - Avis employé Design Advocate Figma

5,0
8 avr. 2021
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Avantages

• The internal atmosphere and culture is so much fun. The company all hands meetings are unlike any I've seen, with huge buzz and positivity even in tougher times • Incredibly engaged and passionate user base – our users love us! • High level of autonomy • Very high calibre of skills internally • Regular updates from senior management on company progress • High level of ambition at every part of the company, we're all in this together • Ideas are welcomed and there is a high level of cross functional collaboration • Bi-annual hack weeks • Bi-annual user conference • Monthly "Covid recharge days"

Inconvénients

• Stretch targets often mean working hours are long • There is always a desire for "more", often before the previous task was completed • The high levels of autonomy can mean that you need to be motivated to direct your own workflow • Timezones are hard! • Targets are continuously increased, meaning there's little time to pause and appreciate how well the business is doing

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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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