Snyk reviews

- This fourth layoff in three years happened just two weeks after its employees were worked to the bone to rebrand Snyk an AI Security company with a "platform" that doesn't exist out of beta. Then two weeks after the layoffs, Snyk announced an acquisition. Quite tone deaf and a slap in the face to those impacted. - It was so apparent the CEO and HR leadership used heavily-AI-generated scripts to express how the RIF decision was one to help "further accelerate Snyk into the AI Era." Another low blow when humans were the ones doing all the work to make you an AI company. - HR failed to communicate laptops were to be completely locked down by PIN code access within minutes of completing your impact conversation meeting. Snyk promised to ship boxes for equipment returns but many of us experienced boxes sent to wrong addresses, sent late, or not sent at all. This allowed Snyk to hold severance payouts to impacted workers until July 15, the "next payroll cycle." If you're following this is 4 WEEKS after layoffs were conducted, a rather unnecessary choice to wait for "payroll" as your impacted employees face financial hardships for a month. - Massachusetts residents are still facing an extra dose of chaos. MA allows you to file unemployment claims immediately after losing employment, however Snyk missed all their deadlines to respond to the DUA. All claims are being sent to an adjustor with zero timeline estimate for when MA residents will receive payments, further compounding financial hardship impacted employees are facing. - Rubbing more salt in the wound: June 30 - July 4 was a "Snyk Recharge Week" so as many impacted employees were reaching out with our mountain of questions surrounding the above (confusion on tech returns, severance timing, or needing clarity on other reimbursements like commissions), we were met with auto-reply emails about how Snyk was taking the week to recharge and reset and enjoy a week of their summer unplugged. I hope the exec team had a nice time in their beach houses and massive sail boats while the rest of us were unable to pay our bills or feed our families in July. As someone who showed up everyday giving their all and trying to embody company values like "One Team" and "Care Deeply," its a real sting and crush to the confidence to see the company's leadership show such a lack of compassion and - dare I say negligence? - in handling this layoff. I don't see how Snyk will be able to turn this around and do right by its remaining employees.

Snyk was on top of the world three years ago, with multiple products in the platform. However, only some products are actually valuable. Our integrations are beta, cover limited use cases, and don't usually have a version 2. Snyk says it is Cloud ready, but this means we have stuff in AWS that may or may not work, is likely to be abandoned, or it doesn't have a good explanation of what it does or how to use it. Our demos have been variations of the same for years. Thankfully, the Snyk Marketing Machine makes the same demo look nice with new words, colors, and new partner logos. We don't understand Enterprise very well, but we talk as if we do. The internal consensus is that we're expected to work at least 2 nights a week. Job mobility is not real, as there are freezes and new policies that seem to create more obstacles than help. If you aren't on the right political team, you aren't getting a promotion. Like many startups, Snyk has too many people with big titles but not enough talent. More than once, I've heard these people can't get the same role + pay elsewhere so we're stuck watching empires of politics throughout the company that are more about preserving the leader's position than advancing the company.