Awesome people, laid back atmosphere, great benefits and good pay - A Great Place to Work On An Innovative Product Symform Employee Review

5.0
Sep 24, 2010
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Pros

Sweet, quirky offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle's funky Fremont neighborhood (right near other software giants such as Adobe, Google, Tableau and more). Management team actually gets it and cares about the people here. They work on the day-to-day operations as much if not more than their staff, on my first day here the CTO and Co-founder sat with me to get all my tech stuff setup. Very down to earth people. The product we are building is a crazy cool concept with tons of growth potential. Salary is competitive and benefits are really good (Lunch is provided every day!)

Cons

The company is small so their are some inherent growing pains. No office phone system so when people call in we have to tell them to send an email. Not many procedures in place.

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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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