Crisis24 Reviews

3.3

75% would recommend to a friend

(122 total reviews)

67% positive business outlook

Crisis24 has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 122 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Crisis24 employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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122 reviews
2.0
18 July 2024
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work with some of the most talented colleagues with the most unique skills and experiences! The benefits are also really good.

Cons

First, the pay is poor and the culture is toxic. Crisis24 does not pay well and the yearly increases do not match inflation. If you are lucky enough to find yourself on a team led by someone who was around before the WorldAware acquisition, then you will probably have a great team culture. After Crisis24 acquired the company, things changed. Crisis24 is wholly focussed on the bottom line, rather than the individuals creating the intelligence that drives the bottom line. High performance is expected and therefore not rewarded, and it seems as if the company will use every loophole to avoid compensating/rewarding employees. Second, unless you are in a fast growing team (consulting, embedded teams), there is very little opportunity to advance your career. Promotions are very slow and requirements for promotions are ambiguous. Management has in the past actively discouraged analysts from moving out of intel teams into faster growing teams. Third, management is slowly pushing everyone back into the office. The office is located in Westlake, outside the city center, and almost inaccessible with public transport. You will need a car and if you can't afford to live in the southern suburbs, your commute will be very long. Fourth, the company does mandatory diversity training and although there is diversity among employees, there is little among management.

2.0
24 Aug 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

On good days the work is very exciting or you have very little to do which can be chill. Crisis/Garda keep acquiring companies which is good? Benefits/perks keep increasing but only because they were bad before. These tiny companies they buy up somehow outpace Crisis offerings greatly on things like 401k match, so parent company has no choice but to maintain benefits for that division and extend an equal level to other employees. Most peer coworkers are cool. Definitely a demand for this service, and growing even in econ downturn.

Cons

- You don't really work for/with Crisis if you do stuff with clients (tech companies/offices/sites). Intel work is a joke to impress clients who truly could not care less. When they do care and send your analysis higher up, you get no recognition or feedback. - Luck of the draw: GSOC's vary SO MUCH with different client companies. One could be a mailroom with daily alarm clearing for cameras and such across the world, one could be essentially serving as an EP intel analyst, everyone's in office assistant, Access control specialist, IT call center, Incident Commander when stuff is actually going wrong, and so much more all simultaneously. - Client blame: The one thing that the sites have in common: GSOC gets blamed for just about everything that goes wrong, especially security related but even for things like Covid policy gaps, and Crisis' client managers/program directors (i.e. middle management) above you completely go along with it and throw their teams under the bus. They do this so they can pretend like they're adding value "managing" when they aren't. - Manager blame: In the same vein, Crisis managers bend over backwards to baby the clients. This happens daily. You are not allowed to discuss solutions with the client like a normal coworker or do anything less than treat them like a toddler. If a client manager contradicts their last ask or a policy/procedure which they wrote for a very specific reason, you will get in trouble for continuing to do things that way. This all happens with no notice; one day they randomly get annoyed with their own customized process. This does not happen on normal teams at normal companies. The manager would get called out and apologize to their reports. Then they can fix it together. - Pay: You are not going to be paid fairly for the value provided to clients. Very few sites are either not inundated by busywork or getting hit with more and more teams to support. Imagine you get the worst tasks from 10+ teams pawned off on you. And no official "experience" or skills to show for it career-wise. And you have to do all the normal GSOC tasks like monitoring developments and weather worldwide. - Career track: you essentially can only go to another client (sometimes they rotate you out anyways if you don't change with the wind of your client's wishes), move up to the aforementioned middle management positions, or get cross-trained to pick up other types shifts as a way to make more $$ (not really a sustainable life). - Lastly! This is not a normal modern company. Benefits are slim. Legally lowest possible sick time. Management structure is further stuck in the past. Especially for certain departments. Negotiations or normal HR sort of questions are handled so poorly and unprofessionally as a result. Truly demoralizing.

1.0
28 Dec 2023

Poor treatment if you aren’t management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

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Cons

Awful leadership, no investment in its talent whatsoever. Lies to customers about nonexistent product functionality to make sales. Extremely toxic environment.

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