A Chaotic, Demoralizing, Sorry Company to Work for - Engineer Owl Cyber Defense Employee Review

Benefits pretty good, though some are pointless, in my opinion. I would prefer to see the money spent on the useless benefits (like Nectar), spent on a more competitive salary. Interesting technology Some interesting people

Minimal career growth. Lack of communication for process or business changes. Lack of communication on product updates and new product releases. Lack of communication across the board. It's so bad that it borders nefarious. Owl told the entire company that we are going to "unlimited" PTO, only to then have the document read 4-6 weeks. Owl hosted a webinar about releasing a new product, and told all the customers the product was releasing that day, only to have the product not released that day. Many of the products seem to have been rushed out the door and released when incomplete. Product testing and Quality Assurance is wholly inadequate, they exist, but do they do anything? From my point of view, the evidence points to no, not really. The company seems to often make business decisions without consulting the relevant stakeholders. I work in front of customers often and I have to buy Owl branded shirts if I want to make Owl look professional when on a customer site. Have this big move going in one of our offices and the entire thing has been a mess, conflicting information from upper management being the main problem.

Above average benefits offering including a no cost to employee health insurance plan. Lots of great people. Interesting technology and industry/sector to be involved in, and it seems like Owl is really at the forefront of the tech.

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.