Ridiculous hard to work with - Security Engineer Snyk Employee Review

1.0
Apr 8, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation is looks good- on paper. Hire cool places for events

Cons

Transparency is very poor between decisions making and success standards. Hire like crazy and fired like crazy. Avery planning in product organisation about when to ship which features Way too many commitments to the customer to achieve something company can not fulfil in time. Therefore it results in high pressure within product and R&D Engineering can not focus on containers one day and SAST like project another day

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Snyk Response
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Hello, sorry to hear your difficult experience. Last week, with having to face some difficult headcount decisions, has indeed been a tough week for the company and we understand the frustration, but we believe strongly in the long-term success potential at Snyk, and our obligation to manage towards it in a fiscally responsible manner. Also appreciate your concern about a high pressure environment and quickly evolving priorities. This is, unfortunately, sometimes the nature of pivoting to address external pressures in a start-up environment, and we fully appreciate this can be challenging. If you have feedback or suggestions that you would like to share internally, please do feel free to reach out to your leadership or someone in the People team.

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