Great Company and Great People. - Recensione dipendente - Associate Security Consultant presso IOActive

- Freedom to pursue independent cybersecurity research - Immediately exposed to meaningful company and client work - Friendly and helpful coworkers, likewise for management - Ultimate "work from home" freedom - Many travel and conference opportunities - Excellent equipment resources - I work with embedded devices but the company specializes in most cybersecurity topics and I can easily interact and work with other consultants with different specialties - Large company benefits in a small company atmosphere

- IOActive has fully embraced work from home, so much of the company is spread around the world. You can easily go several weeks or months without seeing coworkers or clients in person - Most vulnerability-finding work is completely open ended. You have to be able to learn what you're looking at and make your own decisions on what areas to focus on. I personally don't have an issue with this, but you do need initiative and good intuition

Talented and experienced technical testers. There are still good people on the technical team and overall company.

CEO hides behind the COO but tries to put a persona that cares about employees. COO is clueless and blames everything on sales. Just look at the amount of sales leaders they have gone through. The last one came from a successful competitor. He seemed like the most competent, relatable and treated people with respect but left abruptly. Did wonder if he was genuine or part of the executive mafia. The technical leadership is not what is was but a couple of good ones still around. Good technical people have also left due to the lack of career growth path. They laid off many people very quietly and tried to hide it and not call it layoffs. This shows you how dishonest they are and it starts with the CEO. Don't trust her smile and easy going act. It's exactly that, an act! HR is just as bad. There's an employee out of Europe who does whatever that person wants so don't cross the individual. That employee runs the show behind the scenes and even the CEO fears the person. The founder doesn't interact with people and believes this company is bigger than it is.