Bad management - Software Engineer Synoptek Employee Review

1.0
Jun 25, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

HR team work is good

Cons

Managers behaviour is bad and worst. Bad politics They can fire you anytime and put you in performance improvement plan .

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Synoptek Response
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us, and for recognizing the efforts of our HR team. At Synoptek, we strive to foster a respectful and fair work environment, and we embrace an open door communication approach where employees can reach out to their next-level leader or to HR at any time if there are concerns between employees and their direct manager. We also support a culture of performance enablement, where employees receive frequent and continuous performance feedback to help them improve, such as feedback shared via a Performance Improvement Plan. Unfortunately we cannot comment further on your specific concerns without more details. Thank you for your 2+ years of service at Synoptek and we wish you the best in your future endeavors.

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