- Working for Webroot is like you and your team are a tentacle on an octopus with multiple personalities. It feels much more like you're fighting against other teams than with them. As soon as you start making progress in a direction, upper management changes their minds and you have to make a U-turn. Lots of work wasted from changing priorities, which is demoralizing. Pick a lane!
- Our company strategy is literally "make X dollars in Y years". That's not a strategy, and I don't believe it's achievable. It's demoralizing and causes really bad decisions.
- Speaking of bad decisions, I don't know what strategy Legal has, but it's the wrong one. Ask anyone who's worked with them. I don't blame the people, just the strategy.
- Every year or two, upper management makes a really bad big decision. They don't get enough information first, they make a half-baked plan, announce it as a surprise, and have no plan to clean up afterwards or support the implementation of their plan. Especially bad when the change comes with lay offs.
- Transparency is a joke, especially between departments or organizational layers. Here are some quotes I hear repeatedly: "I'm not supposed to show you this information because coworker X doesn't trust anyone outside their team with it." "Do you know about Project Y? I know development is working on it, but no one will tell me what it is." They say "integrity" is a company value, B.S.
- No focus. There are too many products for how big Engineering is, and it only seems to be growing.
- It feels like some departments are drastically under budgeted, and I don't know why.
- Webroot under-pays its employees.
- Working with the Japan office is challenging to say the least.
- Politics and in-fighting is really tiring.
