Kenna Security Reviews

The engineering and product orgs as of late are a disaster. The engineering org has been redone multiple times this summer due to high turnover and inability to ship substantial features. The engineering team is drowning in technical debt and engineering management does little to fix it or help you fix it. This is largely driven by the product team being all over the map in terms of priorities. Don't be surprised if your priorities change 2 times a week. Substantial features can't be shipped because most bugs/broken features are ignored and we are told to keep shipping new features. Most of the people who knew how everything worked are now gone. Organizationally people's pay was cut and raises were not given this year. Company promises transparency and holds trust to be a core value, but you can't have trust when you tell everyone they can't have raises this year and turn around to hand them out to your favorite people. We were told we would get backpay once salaries were restored, but when that happened the CEO chuckled at the idea.

Impressively terrible CEO, who rules by fear and control, and has basically zero people skills, and no understanding of how successful tech companies work as he's never worked for one before. Unfortunately, he hires C-level leaders who mostly have the same traits and fits his world view (even if sometimes they do know better but eventually give up pushing back). He has a strong understanding of the industry and customers though. Engineering is ran like a consulting shop, with product ordering engineers one-by-one what they should work on each day of the next few months; and engineering being blamed when obviously that doesn't work to ship the intended value or more in the force-committed time. Very dis-empowering culture, set up for engineering failure, with no accountability on anyone else in the product-building cycle. There used to be a time where it was the opposite, engineers were empowered while being made accountable by their VP for their results. At that time, projects were turned in mostly on committed time, value was being delivered at a very fast pace, and the platform was more stable. Then the CEO cracked down on this for the sake of his control over it, completely ignored the warnings being given by his senior engineering staff who had more experience at it than he does, and as a result 90% of all engineering management (including the VP Eng) and senior+ engineers quit in the span of 6-9 months. So disheartening what leadership incompetence will do...