Ran like a dogpile - Software Engineer Snyk Employee Review

2.0
9 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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.

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5.0
2 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay, the people, the benefits

Cons

They're a non-public, start-up company, they had layoffs which is always scary.

1
2.0
21 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fully remote, flexible, and monthly stipends. Good pay.

Cons

Shady leadership. Tendency to hire employees for a specific reason only to dissolve their position once whatever project they forecasted for the employee is complete. I’ve seen it happen to multiple employees during my employment until it finally happened to me after a few years. Was advised by a former employee in leadership that I would more than likely be overloaded with work and worked out the door in some way because that was their trend. I didn’t believe it but it started happening to many people around me. I don’t trust these people and managers are very loose lipped, move sloppily, and doesn’t know how to not let secrets slip out. I knew my position was being dissolved from meetings I saw on my managers calendar. Luckily I started applying for jobs because I saw the writing on the walls. I had something else lined up but was still a bit blindsided because I was clearly communicating need for help to my leadership. Multiple interviews asking how I was doing and what I needed help with only for 3 days later to be told my position was no longer needed.

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