Snyk

Snyk has some of the best co-workers that I've ever worked with. The salary is very good, and the name looks nice on your CV.

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 or 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 them though, which adds to the number of support tickets to deal with.

Everyone is burnt out. Stop embarking on silly initiatives that involve literally the entirety of R&D to work on. Chat to ICs if this is news to you, because if it is, you aren't being told what it's actually like to work here.