Hard to be successful with the structure - Sales Pole Star Employee Review

1.0
12 Jan 2026
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Pros

~ Majority of people are skilled and pleasant to work with ~ initial process of being recruited to the company was good but once i joined it was downhill. ~ Salary competitive but not if you dont give people opportunity to build a book of business and actually achieve it!

Cons

~very little time allowed to build a pipeline, in sales this is really crucial ~was dismissed quickly without cause and wasn't even told by my line manager. ~structure was unclear ~ not a very good onboarding experience

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5.0
9 Feb 2024
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Pros

The culture is fantastic. Great place to work. A startup feel with opportunity to work with AWS

Cons

Some legacy products need to be eliminated

3.0
8 June 2025
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Pros

Talented, mission‑focused colleagues; intriguing maritime‑intelligence and defense work; flexible global teams; supportive immediate managers; strong learning curve for anyone unfamiliar with the domain, however.

Cons

PE ownership creates a strong “quarterly EBITDA” bias. Valuation metrics dominate, and security‑modernization budgets are chronically under‑funded. Cybersecurity sat under the Defense Line of Business (LOB) with no autonomous budget or official enterprise mandate, so controls that affect non-Defense systems were regularly deferred. Compliance gaps lingered, remediation backlogs grew, monitoring coverage stayed shallow, and audit readiness slipped further behind. These structural constraints—not capability—ultimately blocked meaningful risk reduction and made the program appear ineffective.

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