Synapse Product Development Reviews

Pros

Awesome place to work, really great and down-to-earth people who do some impressive work

Pros

Synapse has a knack for mostly not hiring jerks, which makes for a fun, collaborative atmosphere that allows people to be themselves. It gives off a West-Coast tech company vibe, minus the toxic bro culture you often find in such places. The work-life balance is stellar. There is a climbing wall, gourmet espresso, and beer on tap. The main office occupies a hip space in older mid-rise building in downtown Seattle. This also means that there are transportation options for getting there from most of the region that don't involve a soul-crushing car commute. There is a bike room and showers, which makes things easy for active commuters.

Advice to Management

Some steps have been taken recently to help foster career growth - I would like to see more of this. It will be a challenge to stay profitable while expanding the horizons of your employees. Synapse is good at challenges. Let's do this.

Pros

Fun, creative, supportive, collaborative, exciting work and awesome people. Truly a fantastic job.

Pros

Flexible work - life balance, exciting clients and work projects, face paced and collaborative working life.

Advice to Management

Encourage continued collaboration across all sections of the company!

Pros

Colleagues were cordial and management accessible

Advice to Management

It is hard to advice management when there is a revolving door up there

Pros

Great people and strong culture

Pros

Synapse is filled with the smartest and most humble people I know. The work is interesting, dynamic and fast paced. It's a perfect environment for product geeks and those who want a lot of variety in their work.

Pros

Synapse is full of wonderful people, and can be a great place to work if you consider the location, work-life balance, and the company community. As some bullet points:

If it's something you haven't already done in your career, you will get useful experiences interacting with clients and vendors.
There will be smart people in your discipline you can learn something from if you happen to be on the same projects.
Most everyone is very friendly and willing to help you if you run into problems.

Advice to Management

Be constantly self-evaluating. It can be great to treat your employees like family, but let it be a family with a ruthless streak.

Pros

Very nice people, management that listens and acts. Cool tech, reaching for more, cautiously.

Advice to Management

Increase funding and support for technical growth.

Pros

Synapse sees and works on a lot of interesting consumer products so you get exposed to a diverse set of challenges and technologies. Many of the products are things you or people you know might use, which is fun.

The company values a 40 hour work week -- it's rare that people work more than that.

People are generally very friendly and fun to work with.

If you're someone who wants to cruise through the work day, make a reasonable salary, and have great work life balance Synapse is good place to be.

Advice to Management

Think about how create an organization with opportunities for career growth/advancement. Curb the animal house culture a bit.