Challenging and beating yourself is the highest form of success! - Business Development Symform Employee Review

4.0
Mar 4, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Symfrom is full of very friendly, fun and smart people. I make it a point to surround myself with brilliant people. If I'm the smartest person in the room, then I'm in the wrong room... I've been with Symform for almost 2 years and every week a new challenge presents itself. Everyone at Symform contributes their ideas and thoughts. It's not black and white here. Lots of room for experimenting and challenging ideas. Also, there's plenty of good benefits like free lunch, unlimited vacation and Friday happy hours!

Cons

Office can get a little too quiet for my taste at times. If you're not comfortable with change, then Symform is probably not a good fit for you.

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5.0
May 30, 2013
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Pros

Great vision and product to take on a hard problem. We have market validation too. Lots of hard problems to solve to keep you engaged and excited. Very transparent upper management.

Cons

Its a crowded space and like any other startup there is risk if the product will stick and adopted by people.

5.0
May 9, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

At Symform, we work with lots of technologies (frameworks/languages/etc.), we aren't married to just one way of doing things. I got a lot of great experience with new things after leaving the silo world of Microsoft. Employees are empowered to decide how best to build new features. Deployment to the production environment happens fairly often, so you get quick impact of the code you write. Also, the Symform product idea itself is pretty cool. A Peer-to-Peer storage network, and all the "interesting" engineering challenges that come along with implementing and debugging a distributed system, is a lot of fun that keeps me engrossed in my work. Symform also has great people. Very intelligent colleagues that are a pleasure to be around, learn from, and collaborate with. And who can forget (delicious) catered lunch every day? Mmmmm.

Cons

A start up atmosphere isn't for everyone. It can be a bit hectic sometimes and there is a lot of unknowns to deal with while building something no one else has done before. People that like working in that environment can thrive here though.

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