Symbotic reviews

3.2

55% would recommend to a friend

(398 total reviews)
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Rick Cohen

59% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Symbotic has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 398 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Symbotic 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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398 reviews
1.0
Nov 2, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free parking and that's about it

Cons

One of the funniest/weirdest thing in my entire professional career happened to me in this company. I was actually getting some work done on a specific module and to be fair, it was taking a bit more time than expected. So I got a call from the supervisor and then he told me to share my screen so that he can watch me write code and as in he actually wants to monitor me write code which includes looking at me as I google specific syntax and figure out the solution. This was just to make sure I'm not slacking and he making sure I'm meeting the deadline and this was on the development server, not on production or anything of that kind. Instead of pulling such stunts, you should know that he never bothered either reviewing my work or making sure I'm following proper Software Design protocols. So basically as a Software Developer, if you ever had a fantasy of being watched while you wrote code in case if there was a delay, this place would be the right fit for you. This itself should give an idea of what kind of micro-management you'll end up dealing with if you decide to join here and this was all within a month of joining there. Overall the company policy is to squeeze as much as possible, as quickly as possible and then to get rid of you. You can be hired as a permanent employee but can be fired with a moment's notice.  I would like to wish good luck to the next person.

1.0
Oct 28, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting and complex technology and hard technical problems

Cons

The company is run by people from the warehouse industry who think engineers are replaceable. This has led to poor management of people, a huge attrition rate, and generally a bad culture. Recently they added time tracking which just solidified this.

5.0
Oct 27, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work-life balance is good and people are nice!

Cons

Not found yet, I will update if I find something in the future.

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