LevelBlue Reviews

Too much changed need to onboard new orgs before we set a proper strategy

LevelBlue appears to be acquiring companies faster than it is integrating them. While the organization has strong talent across the business, the lack of operational alignment is becoming a real challenge. Sales turnover seems to be draining the pipeline, and the remaining sales teams often continue working primarily with consultants from their former organizations rather than leveraging talent across the broader LevelBlue organization. This creates uneven utilization, missed collaboration opportunities, and reinforces legacy silos. There are also multiple teams performing similar delivery work with limited communication or coordination between them. Instead of operating as one unified company, many parts of the business still feel like separate entities under the same brand. The integration gaps are also visible externally. New Statements of Work still go out under legacy names such as AT&T Cybersecurity, Trustwave, and Stroz Friedberg, which creates confusion and makes the company feel less unified to both employees and clients. The latest round of “Recognition Awards” and merit increases also felt like a slap in the face to many employees, especially those who have not received a meaningful increase in more than two years because of pending acquisitions, organizational uncertainty, or delayed integration decisions. Recognition is important, but when compensation has been stagnant for extended periods, small awards or limited increases can come across as tone-deaf rather than motivating. Compensation and bonus communication has become far less transparent. In the former organization, employees could see how the overall bonus pool was funded, how the company and individual regions performed, and how an employee’s individual rating contributed to their bonus outcome. Under LevelBlue, that visibility appears to have disappeared. Receiving the highest possible performance rating and still receiving a bonus of less than 3%, with no clear explanation of the calculation, funding level, or decision process, was extremely discouraging and made the process feel opaque and disconnected from performance.