Smoke and Mirrors - Anonymous employee Securly Employee Review

1.0
Sep 14, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Non-Management team members are awesome!

Cons

Management is Lost and it continues to shows. Read the negative comments from past employees, and they are 100% correct. The San Jose office is answering the reviews, and has no clue what actually happens in Charlotte office. They do let you go if you have a voice- and the management will set you up,(document) to get ride of you. They did it to the account management team member's. The account management - lol- has never worked in a business- has no clue what to do. Makes inappropriate comments all the time about women. openly in the office, and thinks its funny. AM team, lost two team member's already, in less then a year. No one cares to work on the team with poor to no leadership, because lies are told to you, to make leadership look better. Sales leaders will try to make you feel like they care. Definitively not the case, only cares about how they are viewed by the Cali office. They will cut you down to move the company to the next step, like it or not. Everyone is replaceable and is just a number. ( no career advancement, they will hire from other industry's before promoting within.) DO NOT TRUST MANAGEMENT. The internal surveys, area puff pieces, and no one will tell the truth because its a small company and people know who said what. The Positive reviews on GD, by employees are false, SJ said to write something nice to draw in good candidates for expansion. SJ leaders are not business leaders, they do not understand how a company should be run, and lead. Leadership does what ever they want,( which is fine when you actually know how to run a business) they don't listen to anyone. People that have been let go. It happens. The last four/five have been great employees, went above and beyond and hit their numbers. But, had openly expressed opinions, concerns, and questions leadership( which they were right too) and you cant do that. Five others have been let go as well. All established professionals. I will confirm they did let a girl go after here maternity leave. The day she came back! Heartless is showing more and more. The leaders now see more $$$, and that's all they care about. Yes, some of the team members in Charlotte kick butt getting the company where it is. Only the original management. Since then, new management and the original management, have negatively effect the office culture and people just put their heads down and work. If you are a yes, man/women- this is the right place for you. If you like to be heard, like to be and asset, help make things better, want your opinion recognized, good luck it will not happen. Leadership across the board only want to hear their own voice, and that's it. And one more thing, you think the management team works 24/7? Maybe in Cali- Not the case in Charlotte. Do your do-diligence before answering on GD- actually listen to what is being said, you might learn something.

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Securly Response
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Glassdoor reviews, the internal Slack lounge, facebook posts by employees, and the wufoo (100% anonymous) survey done as of May 2018 all clearly have shown that the culture is fun, accommodating, fair & exciting. We have been very selective about who stays and who gets promoted - absolutely. Charlotte mgmt has been given a 5-star rating by the 20 employees who took the survey just a few months ago. There is really no effective way of asking employees to give a good GD review - if things were as bad as you say, mgmt would never solicit GD feedback from the entire employee base - right? Have you wondered why the Charlotte mgmt decided to leave the person on maternity leave on our payroll and wait until she was ready to join the workforce? Finally, Charlotte is a hot hub of jobs with tons of great employers. We are a 3-4 year old startup - we are nobody. The only way we can compete in retaining the top talent in the office is by being an exciting place for everyone to come to - daily. We would not survive if we built a toxic environment, and that's why we have invested a lot in keeping everyone excited. However, it is impossible to make every single hire work out. I am sorry but your story doesn't add up to the various vectors of truth we have access to. Regardless, I will take your feedback and continue to pay close attention to what I hear from the team.

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