CEO ruined a once great culture - Sales Engineer Imperva Employee Review

2.0
Aug 6, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome industry leading products. Good snack and drink selections.

Cons

Chris Hylen (CEO). He came in and immediately rubbed people the wrong way, while hiding under the excuse that he's "introverted". He is arrogant, and does not have experience in security. It was pretty obvious that within the first year of his tenure that people did not like him when more than half the executive and upper level management left. He tries to pretend he cares about employees and then afterwards asks them to write positive reviews on Glassdoor because he knows his reputation is bad. I was laid off in January after he sold the company to a private equity company. He tried to sell everyone on why it was better for the company, but it was more obvious that he was just stuffing his pockets because he got a $15 million bonus as a result of the sale. Most of the great people were either laid off or left because he ruined the culture of the company. He also later revealed that he had been negotiating the sale of the company since Day 2 of his job there.

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