Snyk Software Developer reviews

3.2

16% would recommend to a friend

(32 total reviews)
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Peter McKay and Ken MacAskill

19% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Snyk with 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 32 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Snyk is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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32 reviews
5.0
Apr 8, 2024

Inclusive

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Pros

- Security is a top area of interest in software development - Corporation with ethics as one of its core values - Super inclusive interview process - A hands-off attitude: you are provided with the tools and a streamlined process to do your job

Cons

- Overwhelming amount of information for a new hire, they acknowledge this

2.0
Mar 9, 2024

Ran like a dogpile

Recommend
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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.

4.0
Mar 4, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great product that serves developers like me. Work life balance. Very decent pay and benefits. Working with team members all over the world. Team leads who care and look out for you (I've already been with 4 and they've all been like that in different ways). Incredibly competent engineers, complex challenges.

Cons

While overall they've been remote-first for a long time, the company has been opening several new offices and have been giving the vibe that further down the line they intend to push remote work out. Slack takes getting used to. Too many reorgs and change of managers in a short time. A loss of team, group, division and executive managers seems like a vote of no-confidence in the vision (or possible lack thereof) by many competent managers. It also makes it more difficult to grow.

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