Sympower Reviews

3.8

60% would recommend to a friend

(49 total reviews)

43% positive business outlook

Sympower has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 49 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sympower employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).

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49 reviews
1.0
9 Apr 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

My coworkers have gotten much better at challenging management and demanding proper pay.

Cons

Leadership trust middle management too much, and allow them to treat engineers poorly. Managers do not plan around holidays properly, they do not provide proper guidance, they do not advise engineers on potential changes.

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Sympower Response
4y
Thank you for sharing your feedback! We can agree that a two-way communication is truly important in an organizational setting and this is why we make efforts to listen to everybody's opinion concerning their time at Sympower. Growing in size while keeping ourselves true to our vision may indeed come to certain challenges that we try to overcome together as a team. For this reason, we appreciate taking the time to write down your thoughts as it will definitely help us to improve for the future. Nevertheless, addressing your concerns to your Team Lead or the People Team could come a great way toward finding a solution to potential obstacles and we warmly recommend reaching out to them.
1.0
29 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Top leadership work very hard to promote the image of the company

Cons

Instead of fixing the things that employees have been complaining about for years now, we are told that everything is great and everything improving. After every big project is pushed through, leadership congratulate themselves. We actually had to sit through a meeting where we watched clips of senior management celebrating in Amsterdam "after all that hard work", during a time when we were still working full speed. Senior management aren't very self aware, and I don't believe they work half as hard as the rest of us do.

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Sympower Response
4y
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We are going through a high-growth phase with a lot of new challenges at almost every step of the way and we could have made this far without the hard work and dedication of everyone working at Sympower. It is therefore important to also take a moment to celebrate the milestones we have reached in this journey and, as one of our values states, we are "achieving together" as one team. However, your view on this is important and we would like to hear and understand more about it so we kindly ask you to reach out to either your manager or the people team and plan a chat. Thanks!
2.0
24 Oct 2021

Near breaking point!

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A chance to learn about the green energy market

Cons

Management don't care about developers. There are no benefits, the pay is too low, they keep kicking the can down the road with false promises. There are long hours and too much pressure put on me from product managers and team leads. These constant short deadlines are building up technical debt and wearing us down.

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Sympower Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review and we are sorry to hear about your experience at Sympower. In the recent months, we have been making some key improvements in areas such as compensations and benefits but we are still working hard at optimizing even more. If you have more input on this for us, please reach out directly to your manager or the people team and let's discuss this in more detail. Thanks in advance.
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