Malwarebytes reviews

3.6

54% would recommend to a friend

(374 total reviews)
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Marcin Kleczynski

72% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Malwarebytes has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 374 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Malwarebytes 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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374 reviews
2.0
Feb 5, 2022

Company reflects the CEO

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some genuinely nice people focused on the mission and doing the right thing. CFO is a bright spot.

Cons

CEO has an in crowd who party with him and are promoted and protected regardless of their ugly work behavior or what they do not accomplish at work. COO lacks empathy and EQ. HR has gone downhill last few years. Parties and yoga are fluff. Serious concerns and leadership issues are ignored. Trying to play in the enterprise space is not working despite years focused on that space.

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Malwarebytes Response
3y
Thank you for your review and your advice. I'm really sad to hear this was your experience at Malwarebytes and if you'd like to share more details, I'd love to have a confidential chat, please feel free to reach out employerbrand@malwarebytes.com Kind regards, Elvi
2.0
Jul 10, 2023

Underpaid with constant changing direction

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people CEO is transparent but nothing that's being shared sounds that great or makes sense. Ability for hybrid/remote work. Healthcare benefits are good.

Cons

Unlimited PTO (Seemed great at first, but now realizing it's not that great. Being understaffed makes it difficult or you feel guilty for taking time off, that I take less time off than I would have accrued at a traditional place. I would feel better departing from the company with all my PTO being paid out. Company direction is constantly changing. Don't really know what we're doing. We are just headless chickens in a room on fire. I'm just waiting for something good to happen. Product is decent but full of bugs. Extremely high turnover. Underpaid, high performing employees do not feel recognized. 401k match low.

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Malwarebytes Response
2y
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience, it is much appreciated!
1.0
Oct 30, 2022

Great company strangled by bad management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Back in the day it had some of the sharpest, most creative, empathetic people in the industry. A lot of the consumer product on both mac and win was built by a very small number of people who truly cared about being the best out there. They're gone now, pushed out by senior leadership with limited technical skills and smaller vision.

Cons

woof, where to start? Marcin has negligible business acumen and a habit of trusting the wrong people based on social connection rather than a proven track record of achievement. Yes men were gradually brought in over the years and as the quality of the enterprise product declined, it became difficult to attract senior leaders with any sort of meaningful experience or technical skills. That vacuum in strategic leadership trickled downwards to where middle managers were forced to fend for themselves and guess at what might please the VPs in any given quarter, and what the next "strategy pivot" would be. Frequently, the next new thing would be a goal previously tried and failed years ago. If you don't get on one of the few teams where the lead is liked by the VP, good luck. Most of the female talent left already, usually for very good reason.

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Malwarebytes Response
3y
Thank you for your review, it has been passed further. We would really like to hear more and see what we can do to improve. In case if you are up for a confidential chat with me or another member of the People team, please contact directly employerbrand@malwarebytes.com Kind regards, Elvi
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