Verily 2023: abrupt pivot, over-engineering and senior departures

2023-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

Verily dropped its main product for a new one in 2023 and spread a simple spec across an estimated 600 engineers while founders and senior staff left, one engineer reports.

VerilyFull-Stack EngineerPosted 2 years agoBy Anonymous

About the reviewer

Status: Current employee, planning to leave
Time at the company: 3–5 years
Role: Full-Stack Engineer
Job type: Full-time
Track: Individual contributor
Level: 4
Degree: Master's
Experience before joining: 3–5 years

What they reported

Confident in the business: No
Clear path to grow: No
Hours a week: 30–40 hours
Last stock refresher: $30k–50k
Who makes the decisions: Operations
How colleagues work: Reasonable, not overworking
Office politics: Some, but tolerable
Food: Free, and fine

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Verily 2023: abrupt pivot, over-engineering and senior departures

VerilyFull-Stack EngineerPosted 2 years agoBy Anonymous

About the reviewer

Status: Current employee, planning to leave
Time at the company: 3–5 years
Role: Full-Stack Engineer
Job type: Full-time
Track: Individual contributor
Level: 4
Degree: Master's
Experience before joining: 3–5 years

What they reported

Confident in the business: No
Clear path to grow: No
Hours a week: 30–40 hours
Last stock refresher: $30k–50k
Who makes the decisions: Operations
How colleagues work: Reasonable, not overworking
Office politics: Some, but tolerable
Food: Free, and fine

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