Synthace

This group at Synthace are among the most intelligent folks I have had the pleasure of working with. They are always trying to figure out how to do things better and faster. I feel like there are numerous SMEs to pick brains. The emotional intelligence is high within the company, as well.

The impact we can have on human health as well as other global challenges we are facing today is immense. To be able to accelerate solving these challenges is of great importance to most of us. The possibilities are limitless.

It is truly a diverse workplace and one that values diversity at all levels. We strive to make sure all voices are represented and heard. In fact during the interview process, the CEO made sure to bring up their DEI initiatives and even had a presentation to go over with me to detail their efforts, showing the values and priorities of the company and leadership.

It's become a Synthace trope that whenever we're asked in interviews what the best things about Synthace are, one of the two cited answers is the mission. It feels purposeful to spend your day impacting science, which so broadly impacts our world for the better.

I don't think I've ever heard a synthacer say "I'm bored" and myself included. There's always a new challenge on the horizon, as we're a fast growing startup and often you get to take on work you don't have tons of background in, which means more learning!

The best thing continually cited about Synthace is the people. My colleagues are smart, hardworking, interested and low ego. It makes for a thriving culture and fun place to be.

Synthace offers so much support to employees; Private healthcare, Company-wide paid days off, mental health first aid officers, super flexible working (headache? It's okay! Have a 2 hour nap and finish your work later on) and great annual leave.

Everyone is so supportive of one another and it's so lovely to work somewhere that takes the time to mention you're doing a good job. We have many channels where we mention the great work of our colleagues.

I've never worked anywhere with such a healthy management system. No micro-managing, super flexible, you can take control of your own workload.

The company has a very clear and important mission to accelerate life sciences research. This mission translates into action by the leadership team, and everyone is empowered to work towards making this mission a reality.

A great deal of effort has been made to make sure that we are organised effectively to work towards our goals. Teams have clear ownership and responsibilities and are empowered to act on them, down to the individual level. Even better, throughout the organisation, everyone respects one-another's expertise

Synthace's mission is inherently a challenging one, and requires inter-disciplinary collaboration from multiple teams. There's no shortage of interesting problems, from architecture, down to the workings of individual components, and plenty of opportunity to learn and progress your career.

Joining Synthace has given me the opportunity to learn a plethora of new skills - specific to both my craft and the industry. Everyone in the team comes from a different background with different knowledge, and everyone is willing to share what they know to better the team.

The senior leadership team all are highly skilled and are very open and transparent about the strategy and direction for the company. The company vision is both inspiring and empowering and leadership take great care to live the company values.

The projects I'm working on have been some of the most challenging I've encountered. This comes from both the deep technical application of the product and the big challenges we are aiming to solve, which keeps me motivated every day.

The Synthace platform helps scientists accelerate experimentation including drug discovery research. This has the potential to help solve some of humanity's most pressing problems like climate change, pandemics, food shortages and so much more..

Synthace puts its people first, every decision that is made has its people front of mind. This is reflected in the flexibility Synthace gives its people (hybrid working, working from abroad, enhanced parental leave and pay etc.) and in our CEO's mantra of 'family first'

Amongst it's 75 employees, Synthace counts with 25+ nationalities, 19+ languages, as well as multiple religions and ethnic backgrounds. This year a lot of effort has gone into establishing a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy, committee and communities, talked with raising awareness, organising events and celebrations

Our mission is to make it easier for scientists to actually do science, to make new science possible, and to increase the overall scientific progress possible in the life sciences. Definition of inspiring to me!

Super flexible working arrangements. You can choose to work wherever works best for you, so I usually work from home in another city most of the time and then come in occasionally when it suits. Can also work up to two months of the year abroad.

Product is defining a new category of software in the life sciences and the definition of a deep tech problem space. Lots of interesting and challenging problems to overcome and we're making such a difference to the work of the scientists using it.

My colleagues at Synthace are exceptional. It's no exaggeration to say that they are brilliant, motivated, and deeply empathetic. They make my experience of working at Synthace an absolute pleasure.

The people here are incredibly driven, though not to an unhealthy degree! Everyone consistently strives to give their best, whilst recognising that sometimes things just don't work out and that's okay. This combination of empathy and determination makes for a really great working environment.

Synthace is a great place to work, specifically because of its clearly held belief in working with empathy and integrity. There's no wishy-washy attempts at handwaving and vague gestures here, just pragmatic steps to make the lives of employees better. Steps include additional days for self-care, regular prizes and celebration of individuals/teams, plenty of social activities funded by the company, a day off each year to volunteer, etc...I'm proud to work somewhere, where every employee really matters to the business.

We're helping to improve the way life-science research is done, helping scientists generate more high quality data faster, and freeing them to focus more on the scientific questions they're trying to answer.

I joined Synthace shortly after post-grad, and have been surrounded by smart and helpful people who've really helped me grow. Our collaborative and inclusive culture is a key part of what keeps me happy here.

Everyone's opinion is valued at Synthace, whether that's in making a technical decision or asking questions to C-Suite at our weekly all hands. The company values that good ideas come from everywhere, and rewards people for speaking up.

When I was looking at opportunities, Synthace's mission of bringing innovative tools to the biotech space really stood out from the crowd of fintech and content delivery platforms. It's always had a strong handle on why as well: empowering biologists to make world changing developments.

Synthace straddles two exciting areas - biotech and software - and aims to excel in both. Being a small team means that there's a lot of cross pollination. Although I am a software engineer with no biology background, I've now performed a PCR analysis myself, amongst other experiments, and can appreciate lab requirements in ways that I couldn't before. Synthace is not a 'just write code to a spec' environment.

Synthace takes diversity seriously. We've recently hired someone specifically for this role - it's not an added extra. We embrace the idea that diverse teams are richer and more innovative. In hiring we have ongoing discussions on possible changes to our process to enhance diversity, and are continually looking to improve.

As someone who is LGBT I've found Synthace a great place to work, with no fear about being open about who I am. Management is committed to celebrating diversity, including inviting speakers for black history month and starting a DEI committee.

It's inspiring to work in a field surrounded by experts in biochemistry and software engineering. Whenever I'm committing code I'm reminded that it is contributing towards automating laborious lab processes, which will enabled faster drug discovery and better medicine.

The company has respect for your weekends and evenings. Quarterly mental health day off, in addition to holiday. Colleagues have spoken openly about mental health without worry of stigma. Lockdown was well handled, with support for working at home (desk, chair, monitor, etc).

Biological sciences are diverse and highly complex. Empowering scientists to do experiments of a previously unimaginable scale and sophistication leads to challenges in many areas. From user experience and design to modelling biological devices and processes through to difficult problems in optimization and scheduling there are lots of things we're doing in software that have not been done before.

We're a very diverse group of people from many different cultures with a very broad range of technical and subject skills. Synthace is a melting pot where scientists, engineers, commercial and product people all work together. We've got gardeners, photographers, musicians, skiers, martial artists, readers, writers, cooks and artists. Diversity is absolutely at the heart of our business and we're always looking for the next thing we can do to get more.

The first thing everyone says when I ask them what they like about Synthace is "Everyone's just so nice". We've got such a great group of people - intelligent, funny, passionate, driven and kind. You'll never have to wait to get help with anything you need, you'll never be short of someone to listen if you've got something you need to say and you'll always feel that you can be yourself whoever you are.