Dishonest and incompetent senior management. - Anonymous employee SugarSync Employee Review

1.0
Jul 3, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good technology, hard-working staff, generally fair compensation.

Cons

In the wake of CEO Laura Yecies' departure, executive management misrepresented both their goals and the stability of the company, and promoted several individuals with very little experience into senior management roles. Crowded market space, frequently-changing revenue model, and managements' abject failure to personify the company culture they otherwise trumpet also inspire zero confidence in their ability to sustain the business.

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Cons

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1.0
Mar 18, 2014
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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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