Sycle Reviews

3.2

52% would recommend to a friend

(50 total reviews)

Joel Lockwood

100% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Sycle has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 50 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sycle 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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50 reviews
2.0
16 Oct 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- There are still some very talented Engineers remaining - Stocked kitchen with snacks - Nice work from home ability - Fun company activities - Better benefits than most startups

Cons

- Office located in DTES, not the most safe area - Poor upper management - New CTO that started this year has been poor at leadership and decisions made and has resulted in a very large amount of turn over, a lot of core/prominent Senior Engineers have left - Every Engineering team has been shuffled around three times this year so far. No one can get comfortable in a specific area because we'll just move to another team in a few months. It's very disorderly and messy - Company focuses too much on customizing their product based on certain clients's needs. There's no vision or visionary to lead and say what the product should be - Way too many bugs and technical debt - Pay and vacation are lower compared to what other companies offer - If you have to work on release night, which could mean you're up until midnight if unlucky and no compensation or OT pay

2.0
26 June 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some pretty awesome perks and a good work life balance

Cons

Senior level staff. Management is incredibly petty and rules on emotion rather than smart business decisions. Back stabbing, snooping and "tattling" is recognized while hard work rarely is. I read a reply to a negative comment that there is an open door and no retaliation policy which is a joke

1.0
1 Oct 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Competitive; handsome pay, good benefits package, a team made up from great, varied people of all skills (at least when I started), nice office building, good location. I was surrounded by a very supportive team, friends and luminaries that I looked up to. All of them left.

Cons

Highly disorganised upper management, unprofessional C-level managers, no sense of direction for culture, product and mission, weird affinity for overformalising everything, dishonest people. Favouritism is played regularly, highly contested and political games are played, including management posting to Glassdoor to up their average scores. As soon as the core of our culture started leaving, the trickle down effect started. I know of several highly talented folks whose potential remains untapped.

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