People of color need not apply - Anonymous employee HackerOne Employee Review

1.0
20 June 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Team members at front line try their best to help each other, and push for positive changes from bottom up.

Cons

The company a shadow of its former self. Has lost multiple people of color at all levels, either pushed out with minimal warning and supporting rationale (e.g., formal performance improvement plans) or fleeing to exits for unsupportive working culture. Entire leadership team has almost zero POC (check website if want to confirm) and as other posters mention has had many opportunities to remedy with high executive team turnover. Instead CEO writes blogposts about anti racism. Rather than writing and virtue signaling, suggest acting and making real changes. A concrete example would be to bring in more than one POC for executive team. Is there a structural impediment to this, is H1 and it’s leadership institutionally (consciously or unconsciously biased)? If so, is this by accident or design? Does it matter? Disparate outcomes suggest there is a fundamental problem. Talk is cheap.

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5.0
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Pros

-Very clear interview process and onboarding steps. -Great benefits.

Cons

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2.0
8 Jan 2026
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Pros

- The coworkers are genuinely amazing: smart, kind, and deeply supportive. Many people truly care about doing the right thing and helping each other succeed. - The mission is meaningful. Supporting the global community of ethical hackers is powerful, and the work has real impact on improving security across the internet.

Cons

- Since the arrival of the new CEO, nearly the entire C-suite has been replaced in under a year. This has created an environment of fear, risk aversion, and excessive CYA behavior. - HackerOne used to value transparency and open dialogue. “An honest question gets an honest answer” was more than a motto—it was lived. Today, people are afraid to ask honest questions, and answers are often vague corporate speak rather than real explanations. - A new AI engineer role was created with a pay band roughly 40% higher than existing software engineers. In practice, some software engineers are doing the same work for significantly less pay, which has caused frustration and morale issues. - The company once had a strong, people-first culture. That culture has eroded to the point where layoffs have occurred while employees were on maternity leave. - A newly hired VP in engineering focused on AI appears more interested in empire-building and optics with the C-suite than in empowering teams. Accountability is demanded without corresponding agency, and blame is often pushed downward when decisions don’t work out.

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