Terrible company after the KKR buyout - Anonymous employee Optiv Employee Review

1.0
Apr 13, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the peers you work with and some of clients.

Cons

You are just a number to them, your utilization. They think they can treat their employees like dirt. They underpay by 20% or so unless you are an executive. They all got big payouts from the KKR deal where people that had been with one of the legacy companies for years before all the mergers and buyouts, got nothing. People have been jumping ship for the past 1 year because of the screw ups by executive leadership with the compensation plans to consultants and sales. The IT department is incompetent as well.

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