The pinacle of incompetence - Anonymous employee Guavus Employee Review

1.0
30 July 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Free food - Salary and benefits can be decent

Cons

Pretty much everything else: - Company stuck in the past. They have no understanding of what they are doing and rely on a few key positions to get most of the work done. - Most employees there are either incompetent, very lazy or already looking for another job. I would say that 80% of the staff does not add any business value. - You will spend most of your time in useless meetings. By that I mean 25 people in the same room watching a PO learning JIRA live for 2 hours straight. - It's the first company I know with a web platform and no designer (or any understanding of what web design means)... seriously LOL. Even startups with 10 employes have a designer and this 200+ employee corporation says it doesnt need even 1. - No positive change in sight. Politics will keep the incompetent in charge, and the competent staff will just churn.

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5.0
6 June 2023
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Pros

Pioneered big data analytics for 5G, which would have a great potential in the next five years.

Cons

Change of the stakeholders brought Guavus to cyberdefense world, which did not match its core.

1.0
25 Sept 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The original vision was good, and the CEO has his heart in the right place. The engineering product is very good and they have some great (but wasted) talent.

Cons

Where to start? Sales team sucks big time. Endless sales cycles with multiple teams working for nought. Can't figure out what they want to be; a platform or a product company and it's too late now. Middle management is full of highly incompetent people; some directors don't know the basics of analytics or technology which is shocking and would be comical, but is downright tragic. Not transparent at all; at least in San Mateo office. No long term vision, work is strictly just to do the bare minimum to please whatever little number of customers that exist, and presumably to appease the investors by making quick money. No investment in people, and as such you are treated like another warm body till someone else takes your place. You get hired and put to work on pointless, mind numbing work. Options are diluted as hell, so no one is making money out of this endeavor. Compared to other valley companies, zero perks.

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