Missed opportunity - Recensione dipendente - Software Engineer presso GoGuardian

2,0
21 mar 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The product is fundamentally good. The cause is fundamentally good. The people you work with directly are great. Because the consumers are primarily government entities it is a very stable business model.

Svantaggi

Management has no respect or concern for people who work here. Employees are disposable and there has been at least one layoff each year for the past three years. This usually is presented as “we didn’t have the right team” or “plans didn’t work out” and the usual cut and paste explanations. In spite of being told the company is very profitable, raises did not happen for a while and the most recent one is barely a cost of living adjustment. Promotions have also not happened and many people are doing a different more senior role with the title they started with during the pandemic era hiring boom. Senior leadership is detached, unaware of projects in flight, and unfamiliar with the products to the point they will suggest new initiatives that are for things we already have. Most of them come from very large companies and try to act as if we have the same headcount, resources, and consumer base as a multinational B2C and are seemingly confused and unhappy when things don’t work out the way they expected.

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5,0
27 gen 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

- great energy through out the company regardless of title or tenure - no burn out - I feel valuable and that my work is impactful

Svantaggi

- haven't found any at all

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1,0
5 mag 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The GoGuardian product suite is genuinely strong and has real, positive impact for students and educators. Individual contributors are talented, collaborative, and willing to help. Great people at the IC level.

Svantaggi

Five-plus rounds of layoffs in two years. No one received a raise during that time, even as surviving employees absorbed multiple roles with no title change or acknowledgment. You will do the work of several people and be paid for one. Unlimited PTO is a perk you cannot realistically use because there is no coverage, and it will not protect your job anyway. They will lay you off and replace you with a contractor or make your team absorb your role. Very good chance you will be doing something you weren’t hired to do, but your title and salary won’t reflect that. Marketing gets almost no budget while sales is well-funded. Every deliverable requires leadership sign-off, so nothing moves fast. Product launches are consistently delayed because products go out unfinished. Fully expect to be online at 9 PM the day before a launch changing things that should’ve been ready to go weeks ago. Leadership chases trends instead of building a real strategy. They are consistently years behind competitors, launching products that have already existed on the market and treating them as innovations. Meanwhile, the core suite – the thing that actually justifies the price – is not getting the investment it needs to improve and stand apart. If you are going to charge a premium, you need to actually be a premium product. Direction changes frequently, clarity is rare, and the gap between leadership’s vision and execution reality is wide. The product is the most expensive in its category, yet pricing never budges even as school budgets shrink year over year. Until they focus on making their existing suite genuinely worth the cost, that is a hard sell.

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