Fired without warning after 3 years due to disagreeing with engineering leadership - werkgeversreview Software Engineer bij Singularity 6

1,0
7 dec 2022
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A lot of great individual contributors that are passionate about the project

Minpunten

Misguided engineering leadership. The goal of leadership should be to grow their teams/divisions/organizations. To maturely call out failures in the org and lay out a plan to improve them. To question and test assumptions. And to inspire others to follow direction instead of expecting obedience. Not to be afraid of being questioned and lashing out at those who do so. I never received any negative feedback in Lattice (our performance review tool) and never got an annual review in the 3 years I was there, never had a mention of being at risk or an underperformer, no PIP, nothing. Then had a personal disagreement with engineering leadership on topics they know are problematic in the company during a 1:1 and, the very next week, they fired me. They also originally hid that it was a firing when they shared with the rest of the company until enough people reached out to me and learned otherwise. Then they edited the Slack message announcing my departure. To clarify, I am not saying leadership failed by firing me. Sometimes firings are the best move (though, I do not personally think that is true in my case, you don't know). I am noting that why it happened, how it happened, and what things occurred and did not occur are all serious concerns for the company going forward. Hopefully something they can address in a timely fashion.

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5,0
16 apr 2024
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Working at S6 was like a dream. The entire team was fantastic, the content we made was fun to work on, and there was a lot of room for personal growth. The technical challenges were always fruitful and we learned as we resolved them. S6 truly feels like being part of a family. Everyone works together. The seniors/leads are very kind and patient in explaining technicalities and they make sure you understand the reason for things to work the way they do. If you want to learn and grow in your discipline, S6 is the place to do it. Not to mention you'll get to work on some amazing content! The best part of it all, in my opinion, is the team dynamics. Being a skilled professional is important, but couple that with a great personality and you have the perfect colleagues. I did not meet a single employee at S6 that did not fit this bill.

Minpunten

There's very little I could complain about when it comes to S6... if anything, I would say that sometimes the scoping for deliverables and random pivoting sometimes makes it a little hard to focus on personal technical growth. Such is the nature of startups, though.

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2,0
20 mrt 2026
Anonieme werknemer
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Many talented, senior individual contributors are genuinely passionate about their work and willing to collaborate across teams. In certain teams, you can learn a great deal from your coworkers. Decent benefits.

Minpunten

The culture is built on toxic positivity. Feedback to management is either ignored or used against you. Several lead and senior engineers left or were forced out after raising concerns about an inefficient studio structure that ultimately resulted in poor product quality, delays, and mass layoffs in 2023–2024, some of which were not publicly visible. Top management, despite constantly projecting production expertise, seems completely detached from the actual scope, timelines, and team capacity involved. There are also endless recurring status meetings, with one person at the very top making most of the decisions and creating an obvious bottleneck.

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