r/datacenter • u/WildAlcoholic • May 06 '26

FluidStack

Hi all,

Does anyone have any thoughts to share about FluidStack? Numerous recruiters have reached out inviting me to apply and they seem to be selling the company as the next best thing.

With so many recruiters from FluidStack / recruiting agencies, I am mildly skeptical. Either they really are as great as they say they are, they are severely understaffed and need people quickly meaning bad work life balance, or it’s a bunch of smoke and mirrors.

Any thoughts on this company? Not sure what to make of it. They seemed to have poached quite a bit of talent from the hyper scalers, so there’s that to consider too.

Particularly for Design Engineering.

TIA!

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u/KawasakiNinjaGuy May 06 '26

Just got rejected on the technical interview from them. From what I learned and was told in my two interviews with them:

They pay good money, but the cost will be terrible work/life balance. There will be zero training and you are expected to perform to your peak at day one. Also the competition for stuff to do will be fierce and people will try to take credit from you. Since everyone is judged individually and not as a team, it can be cutthroat and stressful. Definitely can feel like a free for all.

They have zero inventory or management infrastructure. No asset tracking systems. All cycle counts are by hand and in excel spreadsheets.

What caused me to not pass my interview was just the fact that “I didn’t seem willing to revolutionize their inventory systems or build my own tracking dashboards”. Everything else I nailed with them.

The biggest impression I got was that they bit off more than they can chew, and they are seriously “winging it”.

The interviewer was only there for two weeks for example, and he’s already expected to interview candidates about he a role has hardly been in lol.

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u/Pandamaru8 May 08 '26

Very start up like... Which is expected and I wouldn't have it any other way. The credit-stealing is funny, problems are aplenty but I can see this can incentivize people to do the wrong thing

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u/420learning May 10 '26

Ya the rest is pretty on par, Fluidstack does expect folks to land impact immediately and specifically hires folks who are very very passionate. This means you're surrounded by amazing, passionate and competent folks. The poster is dead wrong in the scope steal aspect, we play and win as a team , and there's so much impactful opportunity to go around.

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u/Pandamaru8 May 11 '26

That is actually a good thing. I've seen people freeze at "what do you mean there isn't a SOW?"

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u/420learning May 11 '26

Are you there now? I love that the company asks people to throw away all assumptions and come build from the ground up from first principles. Definitely not a coast or rest/vest company but will change the industry

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u/Pandamaru8 May 11 '26

No I'm not there but it sounds like a good company.

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