A typical Swiss company with the typical issues - Technical Lead Sygnum Employee Review

2.0
Apr 19, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- you can meet some nice people, especially the People Team - you can work with cloud in a bank, with all the issues you can imagine - work/life balance can be achieved - the office is nice

Cons

- a lot of incompetent people on every level (from engineering till C-level management): barely anyone is willing to learn from mistakes, promotion and recognition is given based on who is louder, not what has been achieved - the tech stack is a joke, hard to introduce industry-standards - you almost never see blockchain or anything interesting at all [no IPs, no own ideas, mainly integration of 3rd parties] - C-level management is completely disconnected from the reality, and they are barely approachable - loads of bad practices in the engineering department, and people are not willing to learn/change - empower very inexperienced people, and they deliver crap at the end for loads of money - there is zero career opportunity - the compensation is well below the standard - company values are a joke, they sound really great, but in reality not working at all - there is no compensation change / valuable feedback talk / personal development options - the teams are working in silos, barely talking to each other - Scaled Agile is the worst thing ever, but for some reason at Sygnum, people loves this kind of waterfall and call it "agile"

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2.0
Mar 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible home office some remote work as well great colleagues that will help you when you ask for it average technology stack

Cons

Lower end compensation Buggy systems with a lot of overhead and friction and lack of vision to fix it Lack of clarity in goals setting process and promotions More reactive approach from management than innovation and forward thinking. Management seems detached from what is actually the quality of services Doesn't look like a fintech, rather more like an average Swiss bank

4.0
Feb 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

there is good work life balance

Cons

not much benefits in terms of bonus and employee welfare

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