Dangerous workplace with poor management - Anonymous employee myNetWatchman Employee Review

There is an old saying in technology that if you start working at a place and they talk bad about all the former technical employees and their work, then it is a sign that they will do the same about you when operational management is the real problem. I got worried in my first few weeks at myNetWatchman because of that. Because of how bad some of the things I found were, I thought maybe they just had a run of bad employees. However it became clear that the reason things were done poorly was clearly a problem with management rushing everything you work on because of some new emergency. Everything that needs to happen is an emergency. Not just system failures that require emergency work, but often new intelligence or simply new ideas that come up are "your new number one objective." This means many tasks go 1/2 or 3/4 completed because operational management is constantly shifting direction. The operational management likes to pride themselves on being "hands on" with the technology, but lack the basic technical training required to troubleshoot even the simplest of problems. This often caused problems including delaying planned vacation and left technical debt that is almost impossible to solve. More importantly, these, and many, many other instances of operational security failures make this a dangerous workplace. Private intelligence agencies generally operate on the border of the law. Often they have special arrangements with law enforcement. However, when your adversaries are making ~6 billion in USD per year, and you prevent a huge portion of income for them, you become a serious target by people with the financial means to do real harm. Many of the groups responsible for credit card fraud are classified as terrorist organizations by the US government. This risk should bring some sense of duty and vigilance, but in my experience it was repeatedly shirked and any attempts to change policies to help solve the issue were disregarded. Any attempts to start planning and tracking work so that these problems can be more apparent are stopped. A simple scrum board with post it notes was abandoned in favor of having no process at all. The company is trying to foster a hacker culture including alcohol in the workplace, everyone is always on call, somewhat politically incorrect conversations and tolerance of verbal abuse and actions that are grounds for summary dismissal by any reasonable HR department. I witnessed several such actions including verbal and threats of physical abuse and an employee following another employee home from work after threatening them in the office with several witnesses. This led to a key employee leaving the company and the bad actor was given a warning. More importantly, I often witnessed operational management directly lie to the owners, and employees. In all three cases of employees that left, the company did not honor their employment agreements. Anyone who informed management that they plan to leave the company is said to have "lost their loyalty" and summarily dismissed. This isn't very uncommon in intelligence organizations, but that is why they offer and require 30 days paid notice. They did not honor that for the employees that saw leave or myself when I left.