Symbotic reviews

3.3

57% would recommend to a friend

(396 total reviews)
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59% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Symbotic has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 396 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Symbotic employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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396 reviews
1.0
May 16, 2017

Sinking Ship

Recommend
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Pros

Good engineers, fun problems to solve.

Cons

Management. When the current CEO (Gahagan) took over, things went downhill. He walked into a company that had built an impressive robotics solution and acted like he invented it and knew better than people with years of experience with a highly complex piece of tech. Where he got this confidence I have no idea...he was previously at Avid, an A/V company with a falling stock price during his tenure...not even remotely related to robotics, warehouses, or distribution chains. Well anyway, he created a new bloated upper management layer which he filled with his friends from Avid, mostly in positions they were not qualified for. Internal promotions basically stopped. Raises went from decent and merit based to almost non-existent. I guess that money was diverted to all those new managers. Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. Constantly changing priorities despite the unrealistic deadlines making it pretty much impossible to 'succeed' in management's eyes. Oh yeah, you need to work this weekend. Oh btw, you are on call tonight. They cut 401K benefits for an entire year and threw their hands up "there's nothing we can do, it's a tax thing" related to the parent company. They could have made up for that with the bonus that year, but they did not. The owner comes from the warehouse world and I think he generally thinks of his employees as easily replaceable...not the attitude you expect in a highly competitive field like this.

1.0
Feb 12, 2023

You will regret working here

Recommend
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Pros

- Well funded business - Free lunch - Interesting work

Cons

- Good people left after company decided to not pay previously promised amount, alter the deal and reset vesting schedule. - No work life balance: expect to work nights and weekends to support production - Dysfunctional project management - Huge turnover in the upper management - Beware of non-compete agreement - Favoritism - Lack of diversity

3.0
Apr 11, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Phenomenal product with fantastic potential Convenient location, free parking Free soda and great coffee Not super stressful, allows for flex work schedule Decent comp for not having to drive into a City job Financially stable company? Decent working environment

Cons

Horrible lack of commitment and direction; leadership says one thing, does another... if anything at all. Makes you feel like you’re spinning wheels, wasting time, lost. Uninspiring leadership: don’t look here if you want career/professional development Hypocritical spending habits... wasting so much money on scrapped ideas, then riding you about spending on low-cost items that are actually necessary. Executive team a bunch “yes men” to CEO instead of having fortitude to stand up for their skills, even if it is inconsistent with CEO’s thinking...so scared to upset the billionaire. How do you layoff 150 people, then let your special “brain trust” millennial team hire?

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