Supportive culture, great people and work-life balance, tough onboarding - Customer Success Manager Synthesia Employee Review

4.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Everyone that works here is kind and supportive and truly wants to see you succeed. - The best work-life balance I've had in my 10+ years in tech so far. You need to work hard here, but you don't need to kill yourself doing it. - Our clients are lovely people to work with. The product is a creator tool, and there are rarely stressful fires to put out or super angry clients to manage. - You're able to focus on real CSM stuff like adoption, enablement, training, expansion, and strategy, instead of constantly being reactive, like some CSM roles. - Pay is decent, remote work benefits are nice, office is pleasant.

Cons

- Like many tech startups, onboarding is TOUGH. The company scaled quickly and onboarding was never revamped. I can't speak for the other roles here, but as a CSM I went through two weeks of high-level onboarding learning about the company, different tools, and practicing demos. - After the two week period I realized how much I DID NOT KNOW about my actual role. Managing renewal negotiations, order form management and editing, managing clients' workspaces / provisioning, etc. - Because of this gap the only option is to try and make mistakes, and hope the company has grace and patience as you mess up processes repeatedly.

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5.0
21 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Smart, motivated people working on a cool product and having fun doing it

Cons

Moves really fast . Not a con but something to adjust to

3.0
19 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- a lot of R&D and investment into product, customers really like the product and we iterate on new features quickly - good opportunity to sell, land new logos, expand and people are willing to take you up on cold PG efforts and hear more

Cons

- overly stressful work environment that doesn't give you warm and fuzzys - people disappear after having a great quarter, people are pushed out for not hitting 100% even though goals are barely attainable with a low average deal size and massive quarterly quota - you never feel safe here unless you hit 100% every quarter and if they don't vibe with you, you will be pushed out - there's no room for 70% or more attainment, not set up for success and reps are killing themselves scraping for tiny deals - Self service makes it hard to sell enterprise deals because huge price differential

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