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Terrible Ethics and HR policies - Anonymous employee Symphony Commerce Employee Review

2.0
5 Apr 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I came into Symphony expecting a dynamic work environment and a cutting edge atmosphere. What I found was quite the contrary. The upper management wants to be open with its employees but I don't think that is being practiced effectively. Proper HR policies are not in place.

Cons

Their HR policies and ethics are really shameful and borderline unethical. The Hiring Managers don't know what they want and mislead you to thinking you have opportunities when you don't. Their 1:1 check in's with direct supports are not honest conversations but a way to appease upper management. Nobody cares about honesty in this company. Avoid them if you can!

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Symphony Commerce Response
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Thank you for your feedback on your experience at Symphony. Since you are a former Symphony team member and I am the new CEO, you and I have not likely overlapped. It is true that we are actively investing in a culture of open and transparent communication. i can't speak for the environment that you experienced during your tenure. Based on feedback from the team at Symphony today, I believe that we are making good progress. My personal philosophy of leadership starts with "team first." I believe that great performance comes from the artful combination of challenging teams to achieve greatness, treating them with respect and providing the support to enable that success. That approach is being embraced today @ Symphony. With respect to your comment on HR, I came from organizations with strong “People and Culture” teams (which I prefer to the functional name “HR”) and place high-priority on building the same at Symphony. If you have any feedback that you would like to provide to me directly on that topic, I would welcome that discussion. Respectfully, - Ken Fine (CEO)

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

- There are a handful of senior people who know everything about the platform and can get stuff done, and a lot of junior and/or newer people who are less effective. This creates a huge load on those senior people who become bottlenecks - There is still some technical debt to be repaid from previous years of rapid feature growth - Documentation and processes were not well developed when I arrived, but have got a lot better in 2016

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