Apollo GraphQL Engineering Manager reviews

4.8

100% would recommend to a friend

(3 total reviews)
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Matt DeBergalis

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100% positive business outlook

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3 reviews
5.0
Jun 2, 2023
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Pros

* Growth mindset: company processes and comms are always being refined by upper management in response to feedback * Highly transparent: financial numbers and AMAs with the founders are done regularly * Exciting tech: Apollo is solving heretofore unsolved problems for developers and platform owners * My colleagues are extremely talented and extremely nice. This is a rare combination

Cons

* Company is still iterating on key aspects of its commercial strategy and product approach, which is a source of uncertainty

5.0
Aug 18, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- You'll get to work on a wide variety of challenging but yet fun problems - The people are incredible; super smart, super friendly, super helpful - Apollo fully understands the importance of work life balance - There are a ton of incredible learning and growing opportunities, with great promotion paths - The Apollo community is incredible, filled with amazing engineers and awesome ideas

Cons

- The GraphQL ecosystem is moving fast, so there is a lot to learn and stay on top of (but if you constantly like learning new things, this is really a pro) - Apollo is a growing startup which means you can expect to wear multiple hats in your day to day work (which can also be a pro) - Ummm ... that's it? Honestly, Apollo is an amazing place to work with incredibly low employee churn rates, for that exact reason :-)

4.0
Aug 12, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Colleagues: really. People here are genuinely compassionate, earnest, candid, and concerned for one another. Made being here during the pandemic one of the easiest things. - HR/Management and their eye toward increasing company holidays: again, during the pandemic, the compassion from everyone played itself out as the company giving extra holidays to try and get folks to take more time off. - Autonomy/Purpose: For Engineers, there's a tonne of freedom to make changes and see your contributions get in front of clients quickly. This can mean ownership of chunks of the codebase, and the ability to really get to solve tougher problems. - Remote first: Engineering has done a good job at keeping people motivated and Product has done a good job keeping everyone moving in the same direction - Product: The folks in charge of product, from the Director down to the individual managers, are all keenly aware of the work to be done, have a strong technical background, making building developer tools really cohesive.

Cons

- We've had some management upsets over the last little while with folks leaving. - The company is at an inflection point for the codebase and architecture. For some of us, this is the best/most fun part of being at a startup. Issues of scale, and refactoring are the name of the game. This is when really cool technologies get built to handle this sort of thing. However, this isn't for everyone, hence my calling it out.

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