Another merger disaster. - Senior Security Consultant Optiv Employee Review

1.0
Aug 3, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Probably the only pro was working for some very large clients with challenging environments. Base pay was competitive.

Cons

- Stole all consultant bonuses for Q1 2017 shortly before they were due to be paid. That would be millions stolen. - The bonus plan was then changed to a garbage plan that cut incentives in half or worse. Later they tried to fix it, but it was still garbage. - 401K program is aweful - Health Insurance benefits are a high deductible disaster. - They pushed out the high quality sales leaders from Fishnet and replaced them with people that don't know what they are doing (AccuTurd people). - Bureaucracy on top of bureaucracy. New layers of management and red tape everywhere. The takes a village mentality to project scoping was a nightmare. - They scared off some very high quality clients with overly aggressive pushes. - Expense reimbursement was cumbersome and slow. - Work/life balance can be tough.

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Cons

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Pros

Unlimited PTO Supportive Management Depending on who you get Good work life balance as long as you don't take the job with you after hours Work from Home Hands on Training - could still use improvement Annual pay increase

Cons

2 layoffs in a year when they keps saying everything was fine.... Laying off core contributors so now everyone who is left is doing the work of 2-3 people and not being compensated accordingly Only way to get a worth while pay increase is to move up in the company the annual increases are not inline with inflation or cost of living

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