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      Illumio

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      Illumio reviews

      4.0

      61% would recommend to a friend

      (261 total reviews)
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      Andrew Rubin

      68% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      Illumio has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 261 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Illumio employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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      261 reviews
      1.0
      May 17, 2019

      One of the worst experiences of my career

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Good benefits: company pays 100% of insurance premiums for full time employees and 75$% for qualified dependents; gym reimbursement; free lunch, and fully stocked kitchen.

      Cons

      I have never felt compelled to write a negative review of any employer, because I think its crappy to go negative on someone who paid your salary. It has been hearing all the painful stories from ex-coworkers that finally compelled me to put out a word of warning, in the interest of fairness, to anyone considering working here. I've never experienced a more miserable, unfulfilling and dissonant working situation in my life. There is this kind of insane distortion of reality that grinds on you. Low employee morale, zero training, direction and support, extremely high turnover rate, many employees left on their own, toxic and politics workplace environment. E-Staff hires ex-company employees and friends at the expense of more qualified talent.

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      Illumio Response
      6y
      In reading your feedback, it got me thinking about how to answer with valid data and evidence of change for the concerns you’ve raised. We ran the numbers on our openings for this year and found that we interviewed more than 23 candidates for each open position in the department you referenced. The numbers revealed that, if anything, we are too broad in our initial screen of candidates—attempting to prioritize experience, skills and talent over perceived favoritism. In addition to our candidate selection process, we utilize a cross-functional interview team to determine if there is a match for Illumio. If you are still with us, please let me or anyone else know if you don’t see things improving for you or the teammates referenced; let’s see what we can do to get things on track. We value you and the rest of the team building our product and company, and providing services and supporting our customers. – Emily Couey, VP of People
      1.0
      Feb 22, 2016

      Trying to re-emerge Host based firewalling, Jury still out

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      1. Compelling Security Technology to address their defined market drivers. 2. Excellent development engineers 3. Reputable customer, According to Website, Morgan Stanley is a major customer 4. Strong funding

      Cons

      1. Requires customers to change their security operational model which can lead to long sales cycle 2.Not convinced management understands the sales dynamics of selling this technology considering the current customer security operations 3. Considering the above, sales are not subsantial and long sales cycles

      1.0
      Apr 23, 2019

      Great product, toxic culture

      Member of technical staff
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      Pros

      1. Executive leadership 2. Passionate and smart engineers 3. A product area with very few competitors

      Cons

      All the cons are related to Engineering 1. Toxic Engineering culture where all engineers (and Product management) need to bow to one long-standing engineer else risk get shot down 2. Collaboration with other folks on your work is strongly discouraged. This culture makes every person fend for himself/herself 3. The concept of Team work is implicitly discouraged. 4. Cliques are the order of the day. Loudest voices silence out other voices. 5. Domineering behavior by some individuals in presence of management is ignored or actions taken (if any) have no effect. 7. Engineering management is feckless at best and apathetic at worst 8. Mix of arcane, obscure, and obsolete technologies with some new ones. The obscure technology stack and obstinacy to change is what is driving productivity down tremendously. I wouldn't recommend this to any of my friends or acquaintances. Time for me to leave this toxic ship

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      Illumio Response
      7y
      Thanks for your candid and detailed feedback, both positive and negative. Direct feedback is what enables an individual and an organization to learn and grow. The engineering culture that you describe is not what we want, nor in any way encourage. It’s my experience that a culture like that hinders innovation and progress and rarely results in success. I strongly believe that a component of our success is due to the fact that we’ve worked hard to empower our employees and teams. I’d encourage you to raise your concerns directly to the highest levels in the company. As a small company, leadership at Illumio is accessible to everyone, and is very open to feedback from employees. If you reach out, your concerns will be heard and addressed. Ben Verghese, VP of Engineering
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