HYCU Reviews

4.2

82% would recommend to a friend

(75 total reviews)

Simon Taylor

84% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

HYCU has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 75 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The HYCU employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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75 reviews
1.0
15 Oct 2023

Needs a lot of internal work

Recommend
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Pros

Sales team is close due to trauma bonding (Sales VP/CRO/other BU’s care less about the team), product is great for certain use cases, support is ok, health benefits were better than average.

Cons

Have seen this company go through 2 CRO’s, 3 Sales VP’s, 1 CMO and territory changes that made no sense. Without warning sales AE’s have been laid off throughout the year, claim it’s for performance but never put them on a PIP. Stay around long enough and it happens to you too. Channel help is nonexistent here, resellers are more excited about Rubrik/Cohesity/Veeam. No strategy to improve this currently. Product Managers think the AE’s are dumb, they get in the way more times than they help. You’ll randomly get quizzed by them on new releases so they can report back if you know how to pitch or need to get cut. Funny thing is AE’s are the ones selling day in and out and these PM’s have never sold anything or been in conversations with us to see how to actually help or address anything they are unhappy with. With current leadership expect a ton of micromanagement and no help. If you have any field experience don’t even think about this place because the direction they are going is to run this sales org like an inside sales center with all the restrictions you know ISR’s have. Sales VP is a glorified manager, who only cares about SFDC updates. As an AE, be prepared to wear 5-6 hats to see success.

2.0
13 Nov 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great product. Amazing investors/board of directors. Decent culture.

Cons

Simon Taylor, the CEO, came up with a great idea for a product and had the charisma to sell it to investors and potential customers. That's where he should have stopped. He has no idea what he is doing on scaling a business. He also has no ethics and will lie through his teeth to tell people and customers what they want to hear. He is a coward when it comes to tough conversations, so his lies are followed with dodging calls and texts. He has a pattern of missing his revenue forecasts and then finding scapegoats that he can fire to deflect the attention from his lack of leadership. He is almost out of sales and marketing leaders and ICs to sacrifice, so hopefully the board sees through that and replaces him with a seasoned CEO soon. Simon is way out of his league.

2.0
7 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice people, reasonable expectations of employees, some product differentiation. There was a group of small scrappy startup people here but it's all but gone.

Cons

A microcosm of recent times between VCs and Startups. Cheap money and ignorant investors throwing terms sheets at anything that moves creates lots of opportunity but little value. *Allegedly raised ~$80M. Lack of Leadership and Vision company wide, top down. CEO is absent from steering product, culture, vision, departments you name it he's overwhelmed by just handling the board. Might as well be the man behind the curtain, heard from but never seen. One-dimensional sales motion; HYCU's only repeatable path to market is riding Nutanix coattails. Despite attempts to break out of this box they haven't figured out another successful and repeatable go to market strategy. Putting too many eggs in the "Cloud is our North Star" strategy. Learning hard truths that the Big 3 and their Partner EcoSystem don't need them at all, not one iota.

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