Poor leadership decisions and lack of people focus is killing this company - Anonymous employee Snyk Employee Review

1.0
3 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people to work with who are passionate about the job they’re doing and willing to help each other out.

Cons

Terrible leadership: they make bad decisions , have constant reorgs, put the emphasis of development on the wrong products. No vertical movement: little to no chance of promotion, they think recognition is saying well done and not compensating you or promoting you, they do not care about the people in Snyk anymore, unless you work a lot with leadership then your chance of being recognised is near to none, they’ve changed promotions so you have to advocate for it not your manager and to get exceeding expectations now you have to be “utterly exceptional” according to them but won’t define how that is reached. To them meeting expectations is doing your job role and also the job role above your level. They expect you to work overtime without compensation in teams where there is no overtime model in place which is plainly exploitative. Overall Snyk is not a place I would recommend anyone to work at if you are ambitious and career driven and want to be recognised for this.Snyk have lost a lot of top level talent because of what I’ve mentioned. They’re leaving in droves.

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5.0
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The pay, the people, the benefits

Cons

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2.0
21 May 2026
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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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