Ask for proof! - Anonymous employee Zscaler Employee Review

2.0
Jul 23, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good central location. That's about it.

Cons

Nothing this company tells you can be trusted. They have been saying IPO since 2013. Look up the Bloomberg article with Ceo on that. Hiring so many sales people but shrinking territories. Direct sales are not happening. Marketing is terrible. PM team is failrly weak. Total unfocused path. These guys bought Gartner and Forrester (and flat out lied at times to them). Stock options are an illusion. Look up what CEO has done in the past with his older companies. Best COO Lane Bess left - why is that if they are going IPO soon?! And ask about the 'board' . CEO and his family control most of the shares. Bess left and has a seat. So no really oversight. The CMO worked at a company that got shutdown and he got booted from Google. Otherwise no security experience there. CFO claim to fame was raising money in her last company. Hmmm I wonder what she is being tasked to here? Ops team and custome support are pretty bad. They fired so many people - they just 'disappear' like they were in old school Russia! And titular micro management culture . Oh and unless you are hot and under 30 don't bother working in marketing. Consider sales instead.

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