Pros
The IC's and team members you'll work with are among the best and brightest I've ever had the great pleasure of working with. The culture on the team I worked with was highly collaborative, trusting, and rewarding to be a part of. The mission of Syndio is fundamentally to help eliminate equity issues in the workplace, which is a good cause to contribute to.
Cons
- Constant shifting priorities. The ratio of unfinished projects and unfulfilled promises to actual released products is quite bad. This can be very demoralizing to teams who put weeks and months of efforts into projects, only to be told to let them die on the vine. - Bottom-line at all costs mentality. As a venture-backed startup it is abundantly clear that generating ROI for investors is the actual goal of the company, all company values and mission statements be damned if they get in the way of this end. During my tenure at Syndio, I saw several rounds of layoffs which could have been avoided had management been more willing to commit and follow through with goals and stop pivoting to new objectives every few weeks. - Fear-based decision making. Upper management always seems to be on a back foot and makes decisions from a position of fear and not one of strength. When employees ask earnest, hard-hitting questions (not in accusatory or hostile tones) in All-Hands and Q&A sessions upper management always avoids answering directly and succinctly; sounding more like sketchy politicians than competent professionals. "The wicked flee when no man pursueth".
