Synaptics Employee Reviews about "work life balance"
Updated 10 Sep 2020
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Pros
"Good work environment and huge learning opportunity" (in 21 reviews)
"Nice workplace, work & life balance" (in 17 reviews)
Cons
"Work life balance is very bad, average no" (in 9 reviews)
"Senior management is disconnected from the talent in the company" (in 6 reviews)
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Reviews about "work life balance"
Return to all Reviews"Good company to work for"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNegative OutlookI have been working at Synaptics
Pros
1.Great products 2. Work life balance 3. India team is glowing 4. Decent salary 5. Higher management is good in hyderabad. They are simple and down to earth.
Cons
1. Tough time as the share value is going down. 2.
- Helpful (6)
"Synaptics Biggest mistake of my career"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendApproves of CEOI have been working at Synaptics full-time
Pros
pay is good or can be said that is little above market. Benefits are also good you get free food and cab facility. You can expect nice occasional goodies. Now lets talk about work. Synaptics has various divisions and I can speak for only multimedia division bangalore. if you don't have any self-respect and you are a malyali also then there are chances that you can get some good work.
Cons
Management is very bad in bangalore. There is a very negative vibe in office because of the regional politics here. Work life balance is very bad, average no. of work hours here is 12hrs. They have a decent product but if you a non-malyali chances are high that you will get any good work. People speak in regional language here. No innovation happens in this office. No one even talks about new ideas/innovation.
"Decent company"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Synaptics full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Great work/life balance. Nice colleagues and the atmosphere.
Cons
The company merge new companies almost every year then lay-off 10%.
- Helpful (5)
"not a good company to work for anymore"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Synaptics full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
not a single benefit for regular employess
Cons
new management bringing their buddies (in VP/SVP roles) every other week across all sites. no more stock options for regular employees. tweaked espp program to further erode employee perks. cutting costs to increase GM. layoffs every 6-9 months. unlimited PTO is a joke. cafeteria is substandard. no work life balance. you are expected to attend late night meetings and still show up at office by 9.
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"Used to be good..."
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Synaptics full-time for more than 8 years
Pros
Used to be a good stable place to work with good life/work balance and great people.
Cons
Starting from 2015 company is going down... With a lot of pressure on core business (touch) company tries to find new businesses but it doesn't have a lot of success there... Each year (sometime twice a year) company layoff people... It is not a stable company anymore... People moral is low... current employees are looking for new opportunities elsewhere or waiting for next layoff and working without pushing too hard.
- Helpful (1)
"Good team work"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Synaptics full-time for more than 8 years
Pros
Good team work, challenging assignments
Cons
Frequent lay offs, micro management, hierarchy, poor work/ life balance
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"Amazing company to work for. Awesome people."
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Synaptics full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Benefits. Work life balance. Friendly environment.
Cons
Quite a bit of work at times but isn't that normal?
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Great people to work with.
Cons
No work life balance place...
- Helpful (2)
"Good employees, poor management"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Synaptics full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Good work life balance, they promote and advance women and minorities, the managers do not micromanage, the office is nice with a good cafeteria and gym, and they are serious about making a difference in their community. The combination of all these things are impressive.
Cons
They keep overpromising and under delivering, while our competitors delivered. They just did not seem to grasp the complexity of some projects and underestimated how long it would take to make it work. This caused our customers to not trust our schedules and turn to competitors whose schedules they could trust.
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"Great company"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Synaptics full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Brilliant people minimal corporate politics good team spirit nice career development Feels like a startup but with good life work balance flexible budget to procure equipment Good exposure to many teams and technology areas Good cafeteria Potential travel to Asia with no per-diem Serves alcohol on the premises Relatively diverse
Cons
Needs more process Somewhat low base salary Can be too focused on maintaining immediate business at the expense of future growth favors cubes over offices. small workout facility
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