Abnormal AI reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(280 total reviews)
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Evan Reiser

82% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Abnormal AI has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 280 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Abnormal AI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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280 reviews
1.0
May 25, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I worked as a security analyst so it only applies to that dept: Good coworkers: Everyone is super helpful and willing to help with anything. (with the exception of management) good schedule: Hours are good, and it was easy to get sick days or vacation off decent pay: I would say it was decent pay for the most part

Cons

Management was incompetent: I worked weekends and I always had a hard time finding enough work to do. Because of this I would often get criticized for lack of productivity, even after asking for work to do. -Managment do NOT communicate: Through my almost year of working there, management was always unclear on expectations, or how to achieve said expectations. -Managment would throw anyone under the bus at any chance given, I found they were often looking for people's mistakes, they do not know how to help. -Management would almost seem to punish -people who were in harder situations, (me for example they didn't approve of vacation time due to "unmet expectations" Unsecure job: Lasty people would often be let go or often look for new jobs while working here. Work was boring and taxing

1.0
Mar 2, 2023

The Fish Rots From the Head

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Pros

The only redeeming part of working at Abnormal used to be the people. Sadly a lot of them were laid off or “managed out” by the leadership with no particular cause or direction.

Cons

The lack of direction, basic competency, and absolute decision making chaos is one of the defining features of this company. I have absolutely no confidence in the CEO's ability to define solid direction for this company and then stick to it. This company hasn't shipped anything major in over two years. The lack of execution isn't just on the CEO. You can tell from other reviews here that engineering is being heavily micromanaged by the CTO whose planning and system design skills don't seem to go beyond “what can you hack together in a week”. As the direct result of this, the execution velocity has stalled, there are outages happening almost every single week, and every engineer who is within a vicinity of being on the pager is months into a solid burn out. Career growth: no matter how much they tell you that Abnormal Security is a “career enabler” if you're an engineer you will end up doing one of two things: 1. Hacking together some Django apps hoping you won't have to maintain them 2. Constantly fighting outages and customer escalations That's it. The reward for your hard work is nothing but more work. And good luck doing this for a few years and then trying to interview somewhere else.

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Abnormal AI Response
3y
Thanks so much for leaving an honest review—we truly value your feedback. Being in a reactive state is never the ideal. The downturn in the economy has impacted many organizations, including Abnormal. As a result, we’ve made some incredibly difficult decisions in order to consolidate functions for greater efficiency and match our team structure to changing business needs. Moving forward, we are making changes to adjust to the new phase of growth and build for durability so that all employees can feel confident both in the future of Abnormal and in their future with the company. We are also working hard to create a manager enablement program that addresses these issues. We’re committed to creating an environment where our employees can thrive, and we know that can’t happen without effective, well-trained managers to guide them. We’re sorry we didn’t get it right by you.
1.0
Mar 21, 2023

Beware- Cut-throat Culture

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Pros

Great technology- when it works.

Cons

lots of issues with scalability, false positives, attacks missing from threat log then suddenly dumped in batches- far from near real-time promises. Layoffs, cancelled CKO after all flights booked, product roadmap on a weathervane. Over hire then pull the rug out from under employees, without respect of their family and lives. Beware, they tend to trim people before they vest their equity.......micromanagement IS "the culture".

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Abnormal AI Response
3y
Thanks so much for leaving an honest review—we truly value your feedback. We understand that being in a reactive state is never the ideal. The downturn in the economy has impacted many organizations, including Abnormal. As a result, we’ve made some incredibly difficult decisions in order to consolidate functions for greater efficiency and match our team structure to changing business needs. Moving forward, we are making changes to adjust to the new phase of growth and build for durability so that all employees can feel confident both in the future of Abnormal and in their future with the company.
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