Typical start-up with hyper-growth pain - Senior Software Engineer Snyk Employee Review

2.0
Dec 13, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

* There are some extremely bright engineers * Interesting engineering problems to solve * Pay is good, if you manage to negotiate it well

Cons

* Low quality execs, panic and hype driven decisions * Secretive and questionable constant re-orgs and lay-offs * Benefits are mediocore * Forced PTO on predefined days branded as "recharge day/week" * Seniority is randomly assigned; low quality engineers working at principal level, senior managers and directors with no people or organisational level

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5.0
Jun 2, 2026
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Pros

The pay, the people, the benefits

Cons

They're a non-public, start-up company, they had layoffs which is always scary.

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1.0
Jul 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Product is simple to learn Most of the people are wonderful

Cons

No career opportunities - whatever position/salary you get hired at is the end of your journey. I am pretty sure I saw less than 4 TSMs get promoted in my entire time there. Beyond toxic internal systems - Sales teams completely control your life/career, whatever you are imagining isn't half of how bad it gets. No vision at all - I had 4 different direct managers, 3 different directors and all but a handful of C-suites ran for the hills. Clearly no one knows what to do with the company. Product - Its honestly a wonderfully polished turd. Snyk looks really good at first, then you realize it barely does SCA/SAST, DAST is good but thats only because they acquired it. Their AI tooling... half baked would imply someone at least thought about putting it in the oven. Layoffs - Didn't impact me, but clearly investors want their money and only hope is to gut the company.

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