Don't join Vanta. Take that AI startup offer instead. - Anonymous employee Vanta Employee Review

1.0
30 Jan 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Strong product with clear market demand

Cons

- Vanta operates with an extremely meeting-heavy culture. Calendars are filled with daily back-to-back meetings that lack agendas or clear outcomes, leaving little time for focused work. This will regularly push your work into nights and weekends. - Get comfy in your role; It's difficult to move up. Vanta routinely prioritizes external hires over internal promotions. - Visibility and self-promotion are valued more than actual impact, creating a competitively political environment that is difficult to navigate and can leave many roles feeling unfulfilling. You'll work nights and weekends getting the job done, but likely will not get credit for it. - Management and director-level headcount has grown without a corresponding increase in IC capacity. As a result, workloads are consistently high, leadership is deeply involved in day-to-day execution, and many teams are led by managers who struggle with prioritization, expectation-setting, and effective feedback. - Employees who prefer execution-focused roles will find it impossible to build a sustainable or fulfilling career here, as the company increasingly rewards loudness over results.

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5.0
15 June 2026
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Pros

Great salary, I work on a team that has excellent balance. I get recognized when I do good work.

Cons

Company has a big focus on AI, but not sure we’re all marching in the same direction and often doesn’t feel like a good use of resources.

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2.0
9 June 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good pay and benefits, decent work life balance

Cons

This place is incredibly dysfunctional. Every day feels draining. Toxic and rude coworkers, immature leadership, incompetent and ineffective management, inefficient processes... it's nearly impossible to get anything done without multiple layers of review and endless rounds of revisions. The bureaucracy is exhausting. Decisions are made in siloes and often walked back because they weren’t thought through properly to begin with. Information is shared selectively and you will often learn of things “through the grapevine”. Priorities, goals, metrics are nowhere to be found. There's little sense of culture and very little to no focus on employee experience, DEI, or anything beyond the bottom line. Many people come across as disengaged, transactional, and self-interested. Development opportunities are limited, and career and compensation growth are slow even for strong performers. Office politics are prevalent, employee concerns are rarely acted on, and meaningful feedback is rarely given or asked for. There is an overwhelming focus on AI, often without consideration of resource usage, output quality, or security implications, which is surprising given the industry. Usage is duplicative, disconnected, and directionless. I've honestly never felt less connected to my work. At some point, I found myself emotionally checking out just to preserve my own well-being.

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