Vantaggi
Cybersecurity remains a great industry to be in and the work is genuinely meaningful.
Svantaggi
Engineering and product leadership have no idea what they are doing. There are some genuinely good product ideas, but on the engineering side they seem to have no interest in actually understanding the causes of problems or how we could solve them. We laid off a bunch of people citing costs and the need to break even not so long ago, and have now hired almost 3x how many people we laid off. Some of the people let go were critical to some initiatives in flight which are now being staffed by far more junior people who don't know what they are doing. Quality has dropped through the floor. People are shipping utter garbage fires straight into production while disregarding all company values. Nobody takes the time to understand any of how we have actually done things in the past, and so everything new is completely incompatible with everything else we have. The big new initiative (which has AI at its core of course) has had zero regard for how it will actually work once people start building it. Leadership has dropped a big mess on us without explaining enough of the strategy, and engineering is left to fill in the blanks. Everyone comes out of it with their own interpretation so we are all pulling in different directions. The only reason people are still here is because the salary and benefits are still pretty good, and the market is fairly desperate at the moment.
