great people and solid vision, poor execution - CyberSecurity Engineer Rule4 Employee Review

2.0
Jan 18, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The people at Rule4 really are good people, amazing benefits, a passion to secure the world, and being a B corp are all very respectable things. They aim for a healthy culture, and if you can be technically adept, a good communicator, manage a lot of projects and responsibility (be honest with yourself) then Rule4 would be beneficial for you. There is a ton of opportunity to work with all sorts of technology and technical domains. I found it mentally rewarding to get experience in penetration testing, incident response, and the cloud itself. Also the microbonuses are fun and motivating. Rule4 definitely tries to create a really cool and fun environment.

Cons

Everyone is too busy for true mentorship, not in the sense of hand holding and explaining everything to you, but if you're stuck and need help you will have to figure it out on your own 95% of the time. The onboarding process is brutal. The goal is to get you situated with what type of work you will be doing, but you also do real, very hard work at the same time as maintaining onboarding projects. The onboarding projects aren't simple either, they take a lot of time and there is a hidden expectation that you will just literally work a lot of hours your entire time there (50-55 hours/week). The approach is really dropping you in the deep end and hoping you survive. The phrase "hire liberally, fire quickly" is used to describe how they view new hires. They don't really keep that many people longer than 4-6 months either due to firing or quitting out of stress. Cybersecurity is hard, this place makes it harder. In all fairness, I think these are typical struggles many startups/small businesses have in the tech world and in order to succeed you should have decent experience to begin with.

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Rule4 Response
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Thanks for taking the time to share this feedback with us, and for being part of building Rule4 into a better company. It’s fun to get to work with folks like yourself that share our passion for technology. We are always working on our onboarding process, and your observations will help us improve. We are in the process of adding additional project management and office support resources to improve project outcomes. Best of luck in your career!

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