Synygy Reviews in Philadelphia, PA Area

Pros

The management doesn't expect you to dedicate your entire life to your job. You have great flexibility and can get involved in a meaningful way within your first couple of weeks. People are very friendly, and a mentor system helps you with the learning curve. Mentors also serve to help you navigate through your career, and they do an excellent job of it. If you are a self starter, you will succeed at Synygy, as you are given a lot of freedom to choose your tasks and develop expertise in particular areas

Best, I think, is the evaluation system. You are evaluated once per month in your first three months, and then you are evaluated every six months (based on your start date) in addition to quarterly evaluations. The result is that you should always know how you are performing at any given time.

Working in the old Delaware County Electric building makes for a unique environment, with 100 foot ceilings and enormous bay windows overlooking the Delaware River and Commodore Barry Bridge.

The benefits package that we get is very good.. the people responsible for your benefits are knowledgeable and care very much about helping you out.

Cons

Its location, though pretty cool, is extremely inconvenient. You can take public transportation, but because it is in the suburbs of Philadelphia, trains are never running at times conducive to commuting by rail. Without a car, it is very, very difficult to get to work.

Although benefits are good, that doesn't quite make up for salaries below industry standard. They are getting better and have recognized the need to compensate employees in such a fashion as to give them incentive not to leave the company, but salaries are still lower than competitors' salaries.

Advice to Senior Management

Work on being a little more transparent. The company is shifting its focus, and the employees need to know what's happening, which means informing them of changes before they happen, not after they have already been implemented.

Also, keep up the good work. Employees are generally happy, recognizing that although we are paid less then peers, our lives are less stressful than theirs. Largely I believe this is due to the efforts of senior management to secure a productive and satisfying work environment.

Pros

Great people. Good products and services. No politics

Cons

Top management can be nasty and vindictive. Plays favorites. Mercurial and unpredictable.

Advice to Senior Management

Value your people and invest in them. Run the business as a business, not a sandbox. Don't play favorites.Value your clients and your employees.

Pros

Company takes care of employees
Beautiful building
Leader in its niche

Cons

The sales profession takes a backseat to engineers and consultants
Pay ceiling and potential is below what other software companies offer

Advice to Senior Management

Let sales manage the relationship all the way through the lifecycle of a customer engagement.

Pros

Synygy has a great culture and good people to work with. Also, it is a great jumping off from point. You can learn a lot here if you apply yourself.

Cons

Sometimes it's hard to get the best experience out of the company due to many circumstances; getting put on a large team and becoming lost in the numbers. Low salaries with management asking for more and more work hours is becoming a huge well of dissatisfaction with the employee base.

Advice to Senior Management

Try and hold onto your top talent. Sometimes you need to be proactive with merit/salary increases, performance awards and promotions to show you value someone.

Pros

No one loves work, but I love working here....we have monthly happy hours, pool tables, decent benefits, total access to leadership, I am growing, moving, and feel like an important part of the organization.

Cons

Long hours sometimes, but I am willing to put them in because the clients count on me and my team and I refuse to let them down.

Advice to Senior Management

Thanks for keeping us profitable for 20 years; most organizations stopped paying bonuses and were laying people off during recession...you did neither and it was very much appreciated.

Pros

Lots of learning opportunities for a fresher - technically and otherwise as well.
Experience with teams in different continents.

Cons

Co workers, management suck.
Work environment is treacherous.
 but if you take it as a learning experience and learn how to navigate your way, it will pay off handsomely later on

Advice to Senior Management

One offers advice only if one wants someone to improve. These guys are beyond that stage.

Pros

The diversified background of the employees, got to know many IT guys. Their HR team is pretty good and dynamic.

Cons

The senior management is pretty mean, manipulating the compensation as hard and as often as possible, which seems to be ironic that they claim to be good at compensation management industry. Not a good place to plan your career.

Advice to Senior Management

Try people nicely. The human capital is more important than the short-term profit.

Pros

good experience for someone starting out of college but after a couple of years (at most) the work becomes boring and stale. Don't stick around long nd believe in managements scare tactics used to try to keep people from leaving.

Cons

long hours with little pay. CEO living in a fantasy world.

Advice to Senior Management

hire some experienced help.

Pros

They are one of the most process-oriented companies I've ever seen. This definitely does teach you to think methodically which is a very transferrable skill.

Cons

The CEO has Never admitted a single mistake he's ever made - an excuse for everything. Turnover is likely 300-400% over it's nearly 20 year history - something is definitely wrong with that.

If you need a job right out of college, go in as entry level stay no more than 2 years, and move on.

Advice to Senior Management

Have the CEO step aside and continue to be a thought-leader or 'Bill Gates' esque knowledge architect. Leave the Day to Day to your VP of CS - he could manage the company very effectively, and he really does care.

Pros

Fun, competitive, Flexible, lots of responsibility. The people are competitive, knowledgeable, helpful and provide a rich experience of knowledge sharing. Their 360 degree evaluation system is a great system that helps towards improving you performance both personally and professionally. A positive of being a small company is that what ever you do is visible higher up, so there are potential chances of succeeding. There aren't too many hierarchies.

Cons

Being Private and Smaller company it can be hard to get things done, limited exposure to industry,

Advice to Senior Management

Diversify into pure consulting. Currently the company has good knowledge and experience in the Sales Compensation Domain, but we may be overspecialized in a domain, it may be worth the effort to take on more variety of engagements to gain a foot in the door of potential clients.