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Owl Cyber Defense

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terrible - Software Engineer Owl Cyber Defense Employee Review

1.0
Sep 5, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

HR cares about helping new people fit in more than management

Cons

I was let go from Owl Cyber Defense days after being told by a higher up that the company has plenty of money and no plans to let anyone go.

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Owl Cyber Defense Response
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Thank you for providing feedback on your experience. While Owl makes every effort to screen candidates for fit unfortunately, we occasionally miss the mark. Not everyone is suited to work in a fast-paced environment where ambiguity requires flexibility and high performance. We are committed to doing better to improve in the areas of concern.

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Very poor communication style, rules keep changing and the employees are not updated on these changes creating havoc and chaos with normally simple tasks. Becoming more and more cutthroat and chaotic. Very clear pattern of 'hire new employee, let go of senior employee 6-12 months later". consider yourself warned. The raises have been very low past few years. Upper management does this thing where all year they tout how well the company is doing and how we are greatly exceeding our revenue goals, and then come Q4, all of a sudden we are short on those goals and the year isn't looking too hot. Seems to clearly be setting low expectations for raises and bonuses. Upper management wasn't always like this, but seems really interested in squeezing every employee for every last drop of profit.

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