Wouldn't recommend - Senior Software Engineer SugarSync Employee Review

2.0
Feb 4, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent compensation. Stocked kitchen. Friday lunches.

Cons

The new tech management and management in general wasn't great. Seemed intent on selling the company rather than try to salvage it. No real continuity in a particular direction either. We'd start to talk about doing something and not follow through. I didn't feel like I was contributing, nobody took the time to talk to me if I was being used to the best of my abilities.

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5.0
Sep 21, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Treated people well; analytically rigorous; high integrity

Cons

In a very tough market category

1.0
Mar 18, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Interesting core technology - Hard technical challenges, opportunities for learning - Decent benefits for a startup - Operations team is very good

Cons

- New CEO Mike Grossman has been a strong negative. Many employees have left under his tenure and the company is worse off as a result. - Grossman has hired/promoted friends and former colleagues, and some (but not all) of them have had questionable qualifications for their roles. - The new management structure has led to politics and empire building among the managers at the company, even though they publicly talk about honest and openness. - All the talk about "values" seems to be a smokescreen: the management team does not actually live up to to the standards they promote. - It doesn't seem like there is a place for this company in the market. The competition is very strong and better funded. In the big picture, it's hard to see a positive future for SugarSync other than an acquisition. And it's not clear who would want to buy the company, especially since a large number of key people have left. I don't think keeping the former CEO would necessarily have saved the company, but Grossman has not helped.

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