Employees pushed to complete exhaustion under relentless demands and impossible deadlines. - Software Engineer HeyGen Employee Review

1.0
20 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You will quickly learn how to survive in a highly stressful environment.

Cons

- Employees at HeyGen are driven into total exhaustion by deeply flawed leadership. - Everyone is buried under crushing workloads and constant overwhelm. - Daily work revolves around chaotic timelines and delivering under absurd, unreasonable deadlines. - Leadership demands endless output for extended hours without regard for limits. - Employees are treated like disposable machines, pushed, used, and drained for as much as possible.

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5.0
21 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Lots of winning. - Hard feedback is always listened to, and a good number of times actually followed through and implemented. - No company is perfect, and there are always areas of improvement. But certainly those areas aren't the ones being mentioned here on glassdoor in the 'cons'. If you are a serious person interested in winning, you should actually take the 'cons' that people are complaining about here as signs of validation that HeyGen is doing something right. You should want to go somewhere brutally intense. You should want to go somewhere where things move so fast it can be hard to keep up. You should want to go somewhere where people are working 9/9/5 + weekends. Otherwise, there is no chance the team will win. If this is not you, that's ok too. There are tons of lifestyle jobs out there that are a better fit.

Cons

- Poor job of hiring in the past, as evidenced by some of the salty glassdoor reviews you can see below. We are improving in this area though. - I think some of the reviews here mentioning poor transparency around career growth is a valid point of feedback. But i'd also add that this is extremely team dependent and a middle management issue. Not an executive management issue. Just do your due diligence before joining.

2.0
30 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You're involved in partnerships and growth-focused work.

Cons

There's a lot of ambition behind what the company is trying to do, but internally it doesn't always feel as aligned as it should. You'll be working on something that seems important, then priorities shift, or expectations change slightly, and now you're adjusting mid-way. It's not chaos—it's just unstable enough to make everything feel temporary. Like nothing fully sticks.

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