Very poorly managed - Anonymous employee Synoptek Employee Review

1.0
30 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

benefits are decent and there are some really nice employees

Cons

Management to start off with is just horrible. They are difficult to get a hold of when issues arise, they fail to provide the employees adequate tools to get the job done. Insanely unrealistic expectations on how to service the clients needs. Instead of addressing the issues that are causing the service failures they simply sweep it under the rug or lie to the customer to give them a false sense that whatever failure occurred will not happen again and surely it happens again because they fail to address it. Its more like they form a click with each other and just do the bare minimum to appear they have some sort of value. Client delivery is just as bad, set up new accounts to be serviced without taking proper inventory and just pass it off to support groups to figure it all out when the client calls for emergency service. Leaving the customer possibly down for a longer period of time than what could have been most likely a routine support scenario. Recent surveys showed 60% of employees viewing their job negatively that's somewhat more than a handful. Not even sure what a Kegerator is but never seen one. Culture needs some definite improvement not the greatest environment.

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Cons

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1.0
20 Feb 2026
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Pros

The people are some of the best and like family. We care a lot about our teams and our customers. There are good leaders here but it has just become too hard for us to lead the way they want to.

Cons

Executive Leadership, especially the CEO. The culture has changed a lot since he replaced the former CEO. He does not operate with the same values that have been a part of the company ever since I got here. He rules by fear, control, micromanagement, and is unapproachable. You can see it in meetings with the business and even in our Company meetings. It is uncomfortable. He has started only bringing people in from his former network and they are bringing in their friends. Everything is India focused and North America people are losing their jobs and those that are left are burned out from the excessive workload. We are watching good employees leave either on their own or because they are forced out. The optics of who is leaving and why are not good. I want this to work but it feels like a sinking ship at this point. Our customers aren't even happy with us anymore and that makes our jobs even harder.

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