Synoptek reviews

3.4

62% would recommend to a friend

(371 total reviews)

Salil Godika

47% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Synoptek has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 371 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Synoptek employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.5 stars).

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371 reviews
1.0
Mar 30, 2016

Very poorly managed

Anonymous employee
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Pros

benefits are decent and there are some really nice employees

Cons

Management to start off with is just horrible. They are difficult to get a hold of when issues arise, they fail to provide the employees adequate tools to get the job done. Insanely unrealistic expectations on how to service the clients needs. Instead of addressing the issues that are causing the service failures they simply sweep it under the rug or lie to the customer to give them a false sense that whatever failure occurred will not happen again and surely it happens again because they fail to address it. Its more like they form a click with each other and just do the bare minimum to appear they have some sort of value. Client delivery is just as bad, set up new accounts to be serviced without taking proper inventory and just pass it off to support groups to figure it all out when the client calls for emergency service. Leaving the customer possibly down for a longer period of time than what could have been most likely a routine support scenario. Recent surveys showed 60% of employees viewing their job negatively that's somewhat more than a handful. Not even sure what a Kegerator is but never seen one. Culture needs some definite improvement not the greatest environment.

1.0
Nov 14, 2015

Poor Management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

reasonable pay for most employees, PTO,

Cons

management lacks any care for employees under them, lots of finger pointing and no leadership, as well as little to no documentation

3.0
Aug 31, 2017

Difficult Environment - Unbelievable Experience

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You want to learn? You want to be in IT? A year at Synoptek is worth more than 3 in a corporate environment. You will not learn more in the same period of time working for any other company. Period. Some teams are unbelievable and have great people on them. Some of the funniest and coolest people to work with as well as smartest and technical savvy. The access to systems, for knowledge, is not better anywhere else, outside of MS, Dell, or insanely large company. Any and all techs/engineers are afforded the chance to own environments, to learn and grow, and not get stuck doing just password resets. It is encouraged in most circumstances too. Put in a year or 2 at Synoptek and you will know more about IT than you could ever have imagined.

Cons

I've read all these reviews on GlassDoor and believe all of them to be accurate. Every single one of them. Re-read them, the 1 year mark is about where it goes downhill because the experience a tech/engineer receives starts level off and the stress of the environment takes hold. Some teams are full of nepotism and will bad mouth you to every person in an office (IE Boise). Policies are subjective depending on which team you work on, which clients you support, and which senior management team member you know. If you need help learning, you better know the right people. Too many teams look out for their own and truly don't care about assisting another team. "Throw it over the fence" or "It's not my team so I don't have to pick up the P2". Those teams who do help are not rewarded or even commended. Too many mergers/acquisitions, too many tool sets, and not enough trained staff to support the various clients. "24x7" service desk is a lie. They barely staff a night and weekend shift, just enough to do nothing but sleep and let the day shifts fight fires all week. Synoptek does not care about it's people. They say they care about their clients but they care only when they are in trouble. Then, that care will only be just enough to get the client back up, not enough to actually solve any problems. It creates a horrible place to be, it creates miserable employees, and it burns you out.

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