Symphony Talent reviews

3.2

57% would recommend to a friend

(238 total reviews)
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Kermit Randa

52% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Symphony Talent has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 238 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Symphony Talent 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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238 reviews
1.0
Jan 31, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The people on my immediate team, as well as other departments, built long lasting friendships and I will truly miss working with those individuals

Cons

*deep inhale* When I started at this company everything seemed good, great coworkers, great work life balance, etc. As the weeks went on, cracks started to appear everywhere in the facade. The original company, SmashFly, was bought out by SymphonyTalent. Smashfly had a great work environment but Symphony Talent forced most everyone out and eventually the rest left to other jobs. Long story short, ST has had two major layoffs since Ive been there in a year, they have fired or lost integral people at every level and every department because they are so lost in trying to figure out how to stay afloat. They took a great product and let it slowly burn out, then created their own product that never works and now try to force feed to their remaining clients. Thats just the tip of the ice berg. There was no concern for the client other than the few of us on our team that were client facing and had to try and explain why ST refused to fix their issues or work on their product all while they needed to renew with us on the new and improved platform. Not only that, but they told my team, who were all originally TAMs to begin with, that they were going to dissolve our role and that we now needed to be sales reps for their terrible product or hit the road. I wish I had jobs coming out the wazoo but I dont. Unfortunately for me, I wouldnt sell their crappy product to the customers I had spent a year building a relationship with. In summary, terrible company to work for

1.0
Jun 7, 2022

A technology company without technology leadership or direction

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I honestly cannot find a pro for working there

Cons

Their hearts are in the right place when it comes to business. Provide a product competitive and bring revenue in for future growth and success. Problem comes in given the lack of technology leadership in this technology-based company. There is a constant shuffling of the same leadership team into different positions but if you notice the company’s site, it is without a CTO. This is due to a disastrous disconnect between product engineering teams and specific teams ignoring the late CTO’s (several) direction to ensure product stability and the right technology base architecture decisions that will be cost effective, stable, and scalable. Given that, the products and company’s stability is in ruins and chaotic at best. Couple that with a horrible foundation of employee retention due to the lack of direction and extremely poor business decisions, it’s a spiraling mess and will consume any solid and ambition driven employee forcing them to leave for better positions and even other struggling businesses. Yes, many have left for pay cuts, other poor businesses in trouble and even just, left, without a job lined up. The company needs to bring its product line together for focus on the technology and culture and you cannot do that without a technology leader with management listening to that leadership’s direction. It's ok to fail but not ok to fail and continue leading everyone downhill, along with the entire business.

1.0
Mar 31, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not a whole bunch other than there are some hard-working & friendly people there. Also if you can prove yourself they do leave you alone.

Cons

No concrete plans (especially with product rollouts. does not do proper user research but work off of what product managers/designers sees as "right"), terrible HR (probably relates to the lack of corporate governance) which is ironic given the industry the company is in, screams diversity and "great" culture on places like LinkedIn & Glassdoor when it's non-existent, and poor corporate governance.

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