Pros
Decent salary, a couple competent teammates outside of management.
Cons
Severe lack of security industry experience. Nobody in management has any technical experience in computer security aside from the CTO (and his technical experience was 20 years ago and unrelated to malware analysis). The whole venture felt like a scam on the investors but turned out to just be incredible incompetence. We wasted an entire year trying to "gamify" a malware analysis engine that never worked. Entire engineering team worked evenings and weekends to meet launch deadlines that never happened. The CTO repeatedly promised everybody additional compensation for their long hours but it never came. Management doesn't honor promises. Management promised funding for training and conferences over and over but every time anyone would ask it was turned down. The company promised "up to 12 weeks paid parental leave". I was only allowed to take 1 week when my son was born. They removed this statement from the careers page on the company website after I asked for clarification on the parental leave policy and was never given any additional information on the official policy. I listened to multiple recorded calls our management had with prospective technology partners and they were filled with outright lies about CodeHunter's product's capabilities. Nobody in management has any idea what they're talking about in regards to the technical aspects of malware analysis or cybersecurity research in general. Marketing materials (including the company website) are filled with nonsensical buzzwords that expose a lack of understanding of the industry and subject matter. For example, the CTO would repeatedly emphasize how Codehunter's malware analysis product was unique because it "doesn't require source code". What malware analysis product DOES require source code of the malware being analyzed? All the external marketing materials, videos, etc. are filled with nonsense or outright lies about the product. CodeHunter has been lucky this far in having investors that know even less about cybersecurity and malware analysis than the people running the company. If the investors ever decide the take a critical look into how CodeHunter's CEO and CTO have wasted their money, the company will implode. It's all marketing fluff, incompetence, stubborn ignorance, and lies. Don't expect any long-term success from this company.
