Pros
- You can disregard the old, dramatic, bad reviews of this place. Since I started, it seems to be MUCH better than I thought it'd be. - They'll bring you in with minimal experience and train you. - If you're like me, trying to break into cyber, and are willing to deal with some low pay to get the experience, it's THAT JOB you've been looking for. Here it is. Congrats on finding it! - Honestly a great team. Very kind coworkers that are always helpful when you get stuck. I see many coworkers as friends. - Large range of environments/software to learn. You'll get experience in Splunk, ELK stack, Defender, QRadar, FortiSIEM, Chronicle/Siemplify, and much, much more. It starts pretty surface-level in each one, but you'll eventually go deeper. - Reimbursement for certifications (Security+, maybe others if you ask before you take them) - It has a kind of "start up" environment, meaning, if you want to get involved in something, you probably can. If you can code well, they can use you. If you enjoy soft-skills, they can use you. It's very flexible. This leads to a lot of growth opportunities.
Cons
- The pay is bad as an intern/ERA. Think grocery-store clerk pay. You do it for the experience, not money. Once you get some experience, it's hard to justify staying for too long if you have any financial obligations (unless you get a good full-time offer). Even if you'd love to stay. - It feels like there are 4 or 5 life-long employees in the back office that are best friends and have been there since the 90s, and everyone else is sort of expendable. For a smaller company, that feels strange. I'd expect it if they had 1000 employees, but this isn't that. ^^^this isn't a HUGE deal. Just kinda weird. Maybe remote work makes it worse.