Disappointing - Software Engineer Sympower Employee Review

2.0
Jan 18, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

BCorp with an important mission to help fight climate change. Very international environment, with colleagues from many different countries

Cons

Promotions and raises are given based on politics and gut feeling, rather than results, skills and personal contribution. The Amsterdam office is not a great place to work from and it tends to be mostly empty. At the end of the day, it’s a fully-remote role, even if they don’t sell it to you that way. Pay is low, meaning that the best people will not choose to work here.

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Sympower Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your experience. We successfully attract and retain great people by offering a market competitive compensation package, a great working environment and flexible work. Due to flexible work, it happens that some days in our offices are more busy than others. We value balance and flexibility, which is why we empower our employees to choose when to work from the office, rather han having strict rules on this. As people do choose to come to our Amsterdam office it is regularly full, so we are excited to be expanding to a new floor this year. Within Technology, we have a transparent competency framework to determine when promotions should apply. We support development with time and budget, and we celebrate promotions throughout the year when competencies are aligned. We are a growing scale up. We know that comes with growing pains and challenges. We choose progress over perfection and our employee engagement surveys validate that we are making great progress building a great work environment where people are enabled to thrive.

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