Overbearing founders and lack of interest in people capital, hemorrhaging people - Anonymous employee RiskIQ Employee Review

1.0
Mar 6, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good Location in Downtown SF Smart People

Cons

Ancient technology stack. Founders are overbearing, neurotic and held unaccountable. Yet they inject themselves all over the company and projects. Don't count on them for any type of positive feedback or most interactions in general. Super high turnover of key positions. No subject matter experts in engineering and lack of domain experience. No investment in people over the long term. Lead to a desert of engineers with ability, but no idea how to accurately develop and sell the product. Product constantly changes directions and they have no idea how to sell what they have. Lack of vision. Lack of employee appreciation. Culture is completely non-existent. Profitability over people has lead to massive layoffs and fragmented teams running on bubble gum and paper clips.

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As a co-founder and CEO of RiskIQ, my mission is to build a best-in-class enterprise security company that is committed to providing exceptional service to our customers over the long-haul. That requires that we build a self-sustaining business (i.e. both growing and profitable) inside of our three core values: (1) customer-first; (2) passionate curiosity; and (3) get your hands dirty. That is an incredibly ambitious mission, and I am accountable to RiskIQ's employees, customers, partners and shareholders to fulfill on that mission. In doing so, my co-founders and I (along with the entire RiskIQ team) take a hands-on approach, and we hold others to account on fulfilling on our mission and living our values. Most of our employees are aligned with this approach, and they appreciate that RiskIQ's founders are closely involved in the business. But I recognize that others may not be, and for those employees, it may occur as overbearing and profit-driven. To those employees, I nevertheless thank them for their contribution to RiskIQ and I wish them the best.

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