GuidePoint Security reviews about "team"

There isn’t much I can list here. The only thing that comes to mind is the changing of benefits. As a disabled veteran with numerous health conditions when we switch benefit providers it makes it very challenging and difficult. Luckily our internal teams try to diffuse as much of it as possible.

Leadership at each level Communication poor

Difficult to maintain balance between work and personal life

Fully remote to a point you meet your co-workers in person 1-2 times a year. Career plateau

Offers flex-time but made to feel guilty for taking it. Serious nepotism and promoting of friends, family members and employees referred by higher up employees while others go unrecognized. Hiring individuals to work under immediate family members but trying to keep it secret. Sales people are treated like they are better than everyone else and treat their team like their personal secretaries. Terrible management and zero opportunity for advancement. Told you are doing a great job and then they turn around and find reasons why not to promote you or give you a bonus. Numerous inappropriate actions and words by fellow co-workers and management. Researched salaries for my position, which I was severely underpaid for and was told by HR it was market salary, however it was much lower than most other companies. Leaving was the best decision I ever made! Now I am getting paid almost double and no longer dealing with being micro-managed for no reason. Wasted way too many years at this underpaid thankless job.

The culture at GuidePoint Security, at least on the penetration testing side, focuses on socialization and team rapport as opposed to individual achievement. They value people who are liked by their peers more than outliers who are high performers. The work here is repetitive and uninspiring. Many of the consultants, including managers, are barely competent and lack fundamental knowledge of computer science and cybersecurity that they ought to know about. There is very little respect, if any, given to the types of projects that a consultant wants to work on. This is largely because sales is ineffective at selling different assessment types, but also due to the fact that the company is divided into components such as AppSec, TAS, DFIR, etc. and people don't get to venture out of their division. Since there isn't a sophisticated red team in place, there aren't opportunities to develop a wide array of skills beyond run-of-the-mill network penetration testing. On top of that, principal consultants do not make any attempt to pass on valuable knowledge that can only be gained via experience. As a result, things get repetitive fast and dissatisfaction ensues for a person who seeks to build expertise in different domains. During assessments, people fool around in a Zoom channel that is live 24/7. If you don't desire to engage in such behavior or "hang out" with coworkers who want to meet you IRL, you will be criticized. This is the perfect company for somebody who is fine with chugging along in life, anticipating a decent paycheck, and not being challenged. Anyone else is almost certain to be driven mad by monotony. I don't recommend joining this company, but if you join because you need a job to get by, remember that those in charge here should not be trusted because they are dishonest and will let go of you in a heartbeat, continuing on as if you never existed once you're gone. They claim to "care" and value their coworkers, but you are seen as nothing more than a cog in a machine, which is expressed through actions, not words. In short, this place isn't anything special, and I'm sure that they know who wrote this review.

--Better benefits for parents --Need more access to events

Everyone is getting busier and tones and attitudes are starting to come out.

None. Everything works just how it was presented in the interview.