Center for Internet Security reviews

The CEO gets way into the weeds on every project, making all the critical decisions, but then talks out of the other side of his mouth about delegating responsibility down to middle management levels. It's not uncommon for project managers and senior managers to be berated and insulted on calls. The executives take most of the brunt of the wrath, shielding the employees from the lion's share of the abuse (hence why you see 5-star reviews here from the front-line workers). HR is aware of the situation but sits idly by and doesn't do anything. A culture of fear permeates through senior management.  Quality employees have been fired or quit due to stress. Meanwhile, zero producers are sheltered while maintaining their pay and titles and shedding responsibility. It's not uncommon to see a director or senior director with more direct reports and responsibility than a VP, and the VP is getting paid considerably more for doing less.  There is a lot of red tape and bureaucracy—meetings after meetings for the most minor decisions. The CEO and COO will arbitrarily make technical decisions that alter projects without a complete understanding of the ramifications of their choices. The tech stack is old. The CIO and CFO shops run more like a mom-and-pop business than a company of 500 people. HR and the executive board look at the CEO's verbal abuse and do nothing. Pay is less than industry standards.

Little to no structure and accountability for training new staff. You’re pretty much on your own or hope a coworker is willing to work with you because leadership is too busy doing God knows what in their ‘all day meetings.’ Documentation for team processes is horrible and not kept current. Executive leadership is detached and self serving. Reckless decision making cost the organization its $40+ million dollar contract with the federal government. Executive leadership lacks the industry experience to lead CIS into a profitable future. The company is basically going to have to shrink to survive under the current regime. There are no growth opportunities. Promotion rarely happen and if you do you’re workload is likely to remain the same while true all start employees stay stagnet and get piles of more and more workload loaded into them because teams have many employees that lack experience to create a meaningful impact on their teams. Some teams are fortunate to work on meaningful work while other teams are doing god knows what because multiple teams are doing the same jobs yet nobody knows who does what when asked but when you dig into it there are often 2, 3 or more people dedicated to the same job function. Meaning one person is doing the job, someone helps may be helping and a third is basically coasting by getting paid good money to do essentially nothing. This toxic behavior causes some teams to be drastically underfunded and other teams to be gloated. There is a heavy amount of turnover among teams. Good people leave voluntarily or a just pushed out because senior leadership can’t stomach the idea the folks in lower roles are more skilled and more experienced than they are and this creates a bitterness and toxicity in the air that is very easily noticed. ‘Growth’ is disguised as budget cuts and layoffs. This is what pays for raises, promotions and bonuses. Soon more layoffs and more budget cuts will be needed for more raises, promotions, and more executives to help cover for other executive that are inept. Their is no growth here anymore. Just noble mission clouded by the idea that SLTTs are going to start paying for services that they were essentially getting for free. Good luck with that. Especially since now competitors are quickly pivoting making better services and market solutions are much lower price points than CIS can afford to offer. The company is very top heavy and continues to get more top heavy after each ‘layoff’ and ‘budget cut.’