Xometry Software Engineer Reviews
99% would recommend to a friend
(12 total reviews)
Randy Altschuler
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Updated May 17, 2023
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- 5.0Mar 23, 2023Software Engineer IICurrent Employee, more than 1 year
Pros
Interesting work and freedom to pick your projects
Cons
None none none none none
- 4.0Feb 11, 2023Software EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 3 years
Pros
- competitive salary - cutting edge technology - competent technical leaders that are committed to maintaining legacy applications - meaningful and interesting mission
Cons
- new projects are not well coordinated and it feels like engineering teams are pitted against each other - engineering teams don't talk to each other about apis, which basically causes interoperability nightmares, redundancy and a ton of bugs - executives are obsessed with capturing big markets but tend to have a negative effect on actual execution.... as if building a great platform was just about having the right idea and pressuring others with deadlines.
3 - 4.0May 17, 2023Software EngineerCurrent Employee, less than 1 yearBaltimore, MD
Pros
1. Culture oriented towards results, no red tape 2. Great people to work with 3. Good work life balance
Cons
No cons really other than a layoff earlier this year, but thats happening all over the industry right now, so not really out of the ordinary
1 - 4.0Nov 11, 2022Software EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearNew York, NY
Pros
The company doesnt do micromanagement and hás cool people
Cons
Almost no documentation and agile processes could be better
- 5.0May 13, 2022Software EngineerCurrent Employee
Pros
Great Developer Experience, great management
Cons
Lots of growing pains becoming a public company
- 5.0Dec 28, 2021Software EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 3 years
Pros
There's a ton of autonomy and opportunity to grow your own skill-set. Management is overall great to deal with.
Cons
It's definitely a hectic environment.
- 3.0Apr 15, 2022Software EngineerCurrent Employee
Pros
Ok place to work ar
Cons
Very demanding work environment to be at
- 3.0Sep 9, 2021Software EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearBethesda, MD
Pros
* Ability to work on innovative tech * Developer freedom
Cons
* Disconnect between managers and devs * Lack of authenticity from certain managers
4 - 2.0Feb 22, 2018Software EngineerFormer Employee, more than 1 yearBethesda, MD
Pros
- Some really smart people work here with awesome backgrounds - Office is nice - Nerf battles, dogs in the office sometimes - Good place to grow and take initiative on new projects
Cons
- People are asked to work weekends constantly, almost every weekend. - CTO(Scott Rothrock) has no boundaries will call, text, email you at night, on weekends, on vacation. - Arbitrary deadlines are set on projects and if they're not met people have to work overtime and the feature is released with minimal testing and with bugs. - Pretty much zero process, no story point estimation, no retrospectives, devs are not involved in planning whatsoever. - In general not much accountability, usually the various software teams(web/data science, geometry) are blamed and called out, in many cases the team leads are yelled at by the CTO in meetings in front of everyone. This is a very disrespectful, demoralizing practice in my opinion. - Extremely unequal pay throughout the team, up to ~40% differences for the same title. - Features are thrown at devs with no warning sometimes in the middle of the sprint, with little to no design and a deadline. This will likely cause the current feature in the sprint to be completely neglected in favor of the ad hoc request. - Many weeks of work from devs are consistently thrown out due to the priorities of the company changing on a daily basis, one day it's work on the sprint, the next a feature is dropped on the team with 3 day deadline, 3 days later it's attacking performance. There is no plan just constant priority changing based on the most recent complaint from stakeholders. - Very high turnover
16 - 4.0May 11, 2017Software EngineerCurrent EmployeeBethesda, MD
Pros
Interesting work with very practical, down-to-earth applications. The company is filled with energetic, smart people who care about the work they do.
Cons
Huge day-to-day corporate pressure, which not only can hurt morale, but also produces some bad management behavior and rushed work. There's a strong 'always do more' mentality, which pushes growth but contributes to burn-out.
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