I came, I saw, I ran away - Anonymous employee FireEye Employee Review

2.0
Nov 5, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pretty good free food. Higher-than-average salaries. I'm finding it hard to come up with a whole 20 words of "pros," sorry.

Cons

When I was there, the product marketing team was in total disarray. Lots of smart, talented folks working in the trenches, but leadership/management, going right up to the top, seemed frankly schizophrenic. Strategies, goals, projects, objectives, messaging all would change literally on a daily basis. And there was absolutely no sense of integrity or professionalism. At one point I was asked to create a white paper using customer feedback to demonstrate some of our product's benefits. A fine idea, but one that would take about a quarter to do well--start by creating a customer survey, promote it to our customers, tabulate and analyze results, etc. etc. But I was told that it had to be ready later the same week, and that I should just make stuff up, because my boss's boss had already told his boss "Yes, no problem!", without thinking about it, and he obviously couldn't lose face by going back and saying "actually, it's going to take longer than that." That was my last day.

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