Great Product, No Culpability for the Whiplash Expectations and Procedures - Anonymous employee Recorded Future Employee Review

3.0
Nov 11, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent salary and benefits, generous teammates

Cons

At the time that I joined, this role provided no documented training aside from one SOP that management wanted me to re-write despite having trained off of that same existing SOP. This meant that the triage processes for the multitude of other use cases we managed for customers were constantly in flux, with each failure to magically anticipate those changes documented as a "mistake" to cumulate later into a PIP. In fact, errors made only once or twice over the course of six months counted as a "mistake we keep needing to revisit". It even reached the point of management admitting that "these are not things the customers will notice, we are just perfectionists and expect you to perform at level A, B, C"...with those performance parameters constantly changing, to the point that being human and stressed from needing to work weekends to keep on top of all of the tasks leads to a mistake here or there which is automatically added to your paper trail. I've seen other reviews here say it's a boys' club that likes to point fingers. I think I see exactly what they mean.

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Recorded Future Response
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It is alway great to hear that teammates, benefits and salary are pros from your perspective! You have made some very specific comments about areas for improvement. I am open to listen in order to better understand the challenges and how we can improve. If you are open to discuss with me please reach out via email or Slack. -SVP HR

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5.0
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Cons

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2.0
May 25, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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