Don't Believe Competing Positive Reviews - Recensione dipendente - Engineer presso IronNet Cybersecurity

Don’t let earlier reviews fool you; this WAS a great company but what those reviews have to say is no longer what it is like to work here. Be wary of the recent slew of positive reviews; the company is sensitive about its rating and the higher ups are likely asking certain current and former employees to help boost the rating. They have made appeals for us to help boost ratings several times in the past. - New executive leadership is both condescending toward employees and wildly outdated in business management practices; it's majority older white men running the company like it’s still the dot com boom. It’s a good ol’ boys club over here. - Repeatedly told employees they weren’t going to do layoffs due to COVID and that the employees were their “most important asset,” only to quickly cut nearly a quarter of the company in a sneak layoff. - Absolutely no rhyme, logic, or foresight as to WHO was laid off. A good portion of the people were very core positions on the company’s primary projects. Now there’s a mess of clumsy new hiring going on to counter the inevitable issues from that. - Zero concept of modern software engineering and user experience practices, making the product look outdated and analytics perform poorly compared to its counterparts from the minute of its release. Product management and roadmap priorities are a wild hot mess. - Increasingly top heavy; hiring buckets of upper level execs that are not needed for an employer this small of size, all while laying off the guys on the ground who actually build the product. - Diversity and inclusion are minimal at best. Mostly white, mostly male, and blind to the fact. Women are often made to feel outright dismissed; told not to speak up or be as assertive when posing a very professional and fair questions to C-suite execs. All swag is of men’s cuts and sizes only. Negative comments about women in tech have been made at company conferences in the past. Severe lack of racial diversity overall. - Tenured employees who have survived the layoff are actively looking elsewhere after watching the detrimental changes to what was once a great company. This USED to be a great company when I started way back, but in the past few months the company has made some detrimental and horrifically unwise decisions that are quickly leading this overaged startup right into the ground.