Ran like a dogpile - Software Engineer Snyk Employee Review

2.0
Mar 9, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Snyk has some of the best co-workers I've ever worked with. The salary is very good and the name looks nice on your CV.

Cons

If you're reading this then chances are you are considering a job here. The TL;DR is that if you are a junior or mid level developer looking to increase your skill set, you would be better off looking elsewhere. Aside from looking good on your CV and getting paid well you will otherwise spend the majority of your time putting out fires, working on customer support tickets, in meetings/slack or working on bonkers ideas leadership cooked up because they have no grasp on what they want to do with the company. Engineering leadership here is non-existent. They've either left or been fired and replaced with designer execs that only serve to make the IPO look more attractive (which isn't happening any time soon, if ever). Building anything here is a complete pain because the stack is such a mess and there's no clear ownership of anything. As an engineer you have no autonomy on what you work on. Each cycle you are told what you'll be doing. This in itself wouldn't be so bad if it didn't keep changing every cycle, so you end up with a bunch of half-finished features that exist but didn't get the prioritisation to be completed. You still need to support it though, which adds to the number of support tickets to deal with.

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5.0
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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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