Very Uneasy Place to Work - Anonymous employee ZeroFox Employee Review

Oh man, where to start. So I have been trying to convince myself to write this review for a long time, but I have been afraid, since this is 'technically' a security company, that they would find out who wrote it somehow. But the recent reviews and some of my coworkers encouraged me to actually do it so others would know what's going on here. I think a lot of the positive reviews were actually written by HR and not actually by employees, except for the engineering review. This sort of gets to the center of the cons of ZeroFOX. It's a company that looks like it would be awesome to be a part of, but it's sort of a nightmare. The execs and HR spin a really nice story about how cool it is to work here, but when you get in there is soooo much sketchy stuff going on beneath the surface. This is a company that sells hard and then pulls a bait and switch when the deal is done. That part of the company culture extends beyond just the hiring process and product sales too. Management frequently promises ways for people to move up, but then changes the goalposts or hires from outside to fill those positions. One of the cool things about startups is that you can usually grow with the company, but that doesn't apply here. Salaries are also really low for sector, with no way of knowing what the stocks are worth either, so we have lost a lot of really good people who just couldn't afford to work the crazy hours ZeroFOX requires on the small salaries they had without the company following through on raises and things like that. Most of my team is looking for work elsewhere, or waiting it out until we have long enough here on our resumes to not look like we are just jumping ship. James Foster, CEO. Biggest con of the whole company. I have never had a positive interaction with him, and I'm not the only one. Most of us just try to keep our heads down and do work so he doesn't notice us.