Figma

Collaborative Design Platform — Making Design Accessible to All

2012
Founded
San Francisco
Headquarters
~2,800
Employees
$56.3B
Market Cap
Culture Overview

What it's really like to work at Figma

Founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace, Figma is the collaborative design platform that redefined how teams create together. The culture is deeply product-obsessed, with a strong emphasis on craft, community, and play. Engineers work on technically ambitious problems — real-time multiplayer collaboration, WebAssembly rendering, and scaling infrastructure for millions of users. Expect smart, passionate coworkers who care deeply about the tools they build.

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Glassdoor Ratings

What employees actually say

3.7
Overall Glassdoor Score
Based on 194 reviews
Culture & Values 4.0
Diversity & Inclusion 4.0
Compensation & Benefits 4.0
Career Opportunities 3.5
Senior Management 3.2
Work-Life Balance 3.1
73% Recommend to a Friend
95% CEO Approval (Dylan Field)
Employee Review Themes

The good and the hard parts

✓ What employees love

  • ✓ World-class talent and peers — you learn something new every day from incredibly smart designers, engineers, and product thinkers
  • ✓ Strong product mission that employees genuinely believe in — Figma is loved by its users and that pride is infectious
  • ✓ Competitive compensation and benefits rated 4.0/5 — great PTO, holidays, and genuine support for employee wellbeing
  • ✓ Technically ambitious engineering problems: real-time multiplayer, WebAssembly rendering, and massive-scale infrastructure
  • ✓ Culture of play and experimentation — side projects are encouraged and many shipped features started as unsanctioned prototypes

✗ What could be better

  • ✗ Work-life balance is the weakest area at 3.1/5 — 60+ hour weeks are common, especially near deadlines
  • ✗ Hypergrowth growing pains: product suite doubled without proportional hiring, leaving teams stretched thin
  • ✗ Senior management rated 3.2/5 — shifting priorities, changing targets, and lack of transparency from leadership
  • ✗ Career progression is unclear — promotions are hard to get with vague criteria and limited upward mobility
Engineering Culture

How the engineering team works

Tech Stack

C++/WASM React TypeScript Rust Go PostgreSQL

Multiplayer & Rendering

Built a custom real-time multiplayer engine inspired by CRDTs with last-writer-wins conflict resolution. The rendering engine compiles C++ to WebAssembly for near-native canvas performance in the browser.

Engineering Blog

Deep technical writing on database sharding, Kubernetes migration, and plugin sandboxing. One of the most respected engineering blogs in the industry. Read the blog →

Open Source

190+ public repositories on GitHub including Code Connect, plugin tooling, and design system references. Active contributor to the WebAssembly and design tooling ecosystems.

Open Positions

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