Cyngn reviews

3.9

80% would recommend to a friend

(99 total reviews)

Lior Tal

80% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Cyngn has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 99 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cyngn 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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99 reviews
1.0
Dec 6, 2015
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Cyanogen has the potential to be the 3rd Mobile Ecosystem after iOS and Android Opportunities to work on exciting project

Cons

Bad people culture, CEO , Leadership and HR Treat people very badly Hire and Fire culture Profanity and Insults are common here No career path and No Guidance from Management Treat partners bady

1.0
Nov 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Engineers are extremely fun with work with, except one or 1.5 ex. Many great ...(making up the min word count...)

Cons

Quoting the CEOs post on Linkedin, the company is shutting down Seattle office, of where one of the founders resides. Originally an Android company, someone high up came in with another interest and completely wiped out the culture and pivoted directions a couple time. (This is non private info. You can find it in internet articles.) Closing down the Seattle office so as to consolidate engineering and improve communication under one roof? The Seattle engineer head count way outnumbers the Palo Alto. The palo alto office is an executive office. Ah no wonder. What is the asset for an engineering company? Engineers. Oh! They just let all of them go. To save a sinking ship, you threw some people off the boat and filled holes with dead bodies. Meanwhile take down the Android flag and fly a new "AI" flag. Wasn't one of the VPs hired for "intelligence" let go (according to TheInformation) before you found this new AI flag?

2.0
Dec 18, 2019

Beware.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cyngn has a good amount of funding. There are some great people here and you can find good friends. Business outlook might be okay, but it's hard to tell.

Cons

Management doesn't know what the goal is. There are constantly changing requirements, there is never time to do things right, only time to do them quick-and-dirty, and people have been promoted for doing sketchy things like hiding projects from fellow teammates. Optics are really important, if it doesn't look like you're doing work then upper management will take note, even if you're doing good work and your boss thinks you're doing well. Most people with solid real experience have been fired, usually for disagreeing with management, or they have left on their own, for the same reason. People with "unlimited vacation" have been told they should take no more than 12-15 days off, which is pretty low for silicon valley. Safety is less important than preparing for demos. It's slowly becoming more and more common for new hires to leave in a few weeks or a few months. I'm pretty surprised that there are not more negative reviews on here.

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