The good, the bad, the ugly. - Anonymous employee GitGuardian Employee Review

3.0
19 June 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company has a noble goal, and is moving forwards with the great intention of keeping businesses safe, which is quite a pleasure, knowing the work we do will be rewarding and useful. The challenging stack and challenges makes this a great place to whoever wishing to grow. The coworkers are a pleasure to work with, and make you feel being at the right place. A hopeful future where the company really makes a splash.

Cons

Out of the many gripes I have, the main one is the management overall both technical and human. Any suggestions or important work that need to be done is not, and people are getting exhausted by the tense adversarial atmosphere when it comes to speaking up about pretty much anything. Because when they do, the general feeling is they're yeeted out of the company. For a high-tech company, the engineering department is the most critical asset, yet badly hindered by archaïc decisions, heads-burried-in-the-sand management, and top-down decisions not taken while being clear of mind. You can speak up to your manager(s), but nothing is said afterwards or seems to change towards the better actions, which makes you feel unimportant. The company pride themselves in providing training session, but nobody seems to have been granted one or more. I'd suggest starting with the first few levels to target the people that have high stake roles, but little experience in the field, therefore impacting badly the morale of everyone else. This is no job where you very rarely enjoy the day-to-day job because of that, which is very much saddening. Not even talking about the procedures created for a lot of things, trying to reinvent the wheel, strongly slowing down everything for everyone. Salary is fine, but compensation is too low compared to the market, and the rare promotions and given after a careful, nit-picky, and painful investigation that leaves to believe they do not want you to have a promotion.

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GitGuardian Response
2y
Thanks for your feedback. First we are glad that you find meaning in our company mission, that you enjoy your work environment and the people you are working with. Providing these conditions is one of our focus. Regarding your concerns towards leadership, we have recruited this lasts months senior executives profils in the Engineering, Sales and People team, to support our growth, continue to find the right level of structuration and provide vision to the teams. We are conscious that navigating in a constantly changing environment -due to business and human growth, market acceleration, new products launches- can be challenging. A major focus for ExCom and managers is to take the best decisions as fast as possible, to ensure the company growth (both human and business wise), as well as providing their teams the best possible environment for professional and personal development.

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Thank you so much for the very good feedback. We certainly take constructive input to heart and will brainstorm some ways to address your thoughts. If you'd like to speak directly, I'd be happy to listen! - Brandy
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Thank you very much for taking the time to leave us a review! - Brandy
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