Fun and passionate workplace, the company has a renewed focus on creating a quality product and keeping employees happy - Software Engineer SugarSync Employee Review

4.0
Sep 24, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

New management has become much more transparent and is proactive about addressing concerns. Previously, top-level management used to sit in private offices. They now sit at regular desks in the open floor plan amongst the developers (including the CEO). There is an abundance of interesting large scale and high impact projects available to take ownership of. Hard work is recognized and rewarded. The company has good flexibility with working hours, which you can use to avoid traffic or make doc appointments.

Cons

Company is migrating from an older more complicated application infrastructure to a newer more streamlined one. While this migration is being done you are often required to learn two different ways to do the same thing. Not easily commutable by public transportation.

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5.0
Sep 21, 2017
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Pros

Treated people well; analytically rigorous; high integrity

Cons

In a very tough market category

1.0
Mar 18, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Interesting core technology - Hard technical challenges, opportunities for learning - Decent benefits for a startup - Operations team is very good

Cons

- New CEO Mike Grossman has been a strong negative. Many employees have left under his tenure and the company is worse off as a result. - Grossman has hired/promoted friends and former colleagues, and some (but not all) of them have had questionable qualifications for their roles. - The new management structure has led to politics and empire building among the managers at the company, even though they publicly talk about honest and openness. - All the talk about "values" seems to be a smokescreen: the management team does not actually live up to to the standards they promote. - It doesn't seem like there is a place for this company in the market. The competition is very strong and better funded. In the big picture, it's hard to see a positive future for SugarSync other than an acquisition. And it's not clear who would want to buy the company, especially since a large number of key people have left. I don't think keeping the former CEO would necessarily have saved the company, but Grossman has not helped.

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