1 Jul 2022
Tynker Reviews
3.0
38% would recommend to a friend
Krishna Vedati
34% approve of CEO
34% positive business outlook
Tynker has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 30 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Tynker employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
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30 reviews
5.0
14 Mar 2022
Amazing Culture, Wonderful People and Plenty Learning Opportunities
Current employee, more than 1 year
Bengaluru
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Its been two years of working with Tynker, and I look forward to many more. I started my career with Tynker rejecting offers from top banking firms. Things I like about working with Tynker . - Great team! People at Tynker are very supportive and helpful. - Senior management members are very approachable and very helpful. My reason to join Tynker was senior management leadership and guidance, and especially I couldn't thank much to the CEO, who has always been a mentor to me. - Tynker has a cross continent team which always makes working with Tynker an enriching and a new experience. - Innovative product. Overall, Tynker is the best place to start a career. It has a fantastic set of team members who always keeps me motivated and have immensely contributed to my personal growth, which would not have been the case if I had joined another organization.
Cons
Nothing observed so far .
1.0
20 Nov 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
A handful of kind/reasonable/helpful coworkers at tynker. Although it seems like another one leaves every month or so. The snacks are alright.
Cons
1. CEO. He is a master of gaslighting and manipulation with a truly terrifying temper. He constantly questions employees' loyalty to him and to tynker. He expects employees to work long hours and be upbeat, even though he comes in late and leaves early and never smiles or greets people. And because tynker is a very small company, he is able to pollute the whole office with his nastiness. 2. People at tynker are unhappy. People at tynker want to leave tynker. Even though some of your coworkers are cool, it's just not an okay environment. The best ones are probably on their way out. 3. The $$$. They offer you a lot of stock instead of a decent salary. Someone in tech gave me good advice: always assume that your stock is worth zero. Because in 95% of start-ups, it is. And every company thinks they're the exception. 4. Advancement opportunities. As a game developer, your skills will stagnate. You are mostly coding in Tynker's Scratch-like environment, not in a real language. That is not an employable or transferrable skill. 5. The product (tynker courses) is not good, and management is disinterested in improving it in meaningful ways. It's demoralizing to work on projects where the goal is just to get it done as quickly as possible and have it look good, without much concern for the actual user. I just want to add: I wish I'd known before joining tynker what this environment would be like. It really is miserable and toxic beyond what I could have imagined. My mental health (and the mental health of other employees) has suffered significantly here.
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