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3.6

54% would recommend to a friend

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Marcin Kleczynski

72% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

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1.0
Aug 21, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Free snacks were nice. But no current pros since we're not in the office

Cons

Favoritism, nepotism , and politics run rampant here. A culture can not be fixed if the leadership perpetuates and embodies this culture. The sales executives axed hardworking people who made extremely valuable contributions to the org, but kept questionable people. Leadership always said during meetings that there were no plans to lay-off anyone, come to hear that they had been planning lay-offs for a long time. How can they be trusted this time around when they there's no plans to lay-off any more people? The sales executive team does not accept and listen to criticism. This is very evident in the meetings to discuss quarterly survey results. (Surveys are for us to voice pros/cons, feedback to the sales execs.) Sales team members are very much so a cog in the machine. It should not feel like you're working for a dictatorship, but maybe that's how they want to run the org. If the execs actually took the time to listen to the feedback and made changes based off this feedback, the sales org would benefit a lot. There are too many org/restructure changes to keep up with. It seems like this happens every quarter, multiple times a quarter. It doesn't seem like there is any thought put into the long-term effects that can arise from these changes. Often times, problems will arise, and new changes to address these problems are made shortly after, enabling the cycle of badly thought-out decisions to continue to be made. The leadership during COVID has been unstable. Daily KPI’s and workload has been significantly increased. Obviously no businesses were prepared or have experience dealing with the effects of COVID, but smarter and more empathetic decisions could have/can definitely been made. The product is already one of, if not the most expensive on the market, so it's been even harder to sell during this time. The pay is low compared to the market. I think that the low ratings on Glassdoor, specifically within the sales organization, are really telling to the dysfunction that lives here.

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Malwarebytes Response
5y
Thank you for your honest feedback. The recent organizational changes were a hard, but a necessary decision to make. These changes will help us better align to our customers and provide more tailored, meaningful relationships. Your concerns and feelings are valid; we are taking all feedback into consideration, and have communicated with employees about some of your concerns in our most recent All Hands meeting. At Malwarebytes, we take pride in our innovative, inclusive culture and welcome feedback on how we can improve. Employees have two formal opportunities to provide anonymous feedback during our annual engagement and manager effectiveness surveys. Key results from these surveys are shared with employees with areas for improvement addressed and set as corporate/management OKRs or personal objectives. Malwarebytes also encourages employees to reach out to their People Business Partner any time they have a question or concern.
1.0
Jun 8, 2020

Failing company..AVOID

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Pros

Unlimited PTO, snacks, nice office, nice colleagues

Cons

Product is great for consumers/small businesses but Malwarebytes has been touting "Enterprise readiness" for the past 3+ years and it has gotten nowhere. Trying to play in the A-league when they are D-league at best. Can't attract better engineering/product candidates when both product and pay are so poor. Malwarebytes considers certain other vendors to be huge competitors but after talking to those companies, Malwarebytes isn't even on their radar. They do not care about this company because they don't consider it a threat! That should say a lot. Leadership turnover and changes are incredibly high. In addition, leadership does not know what they are doing, does not care about employees at all, and resort to micro management of irrelevant things. In sales, they prefer high volume calls/activities over less calls but higher quality ones. No wonder hitting numbers has been such a challenge. WFH is frowned upon as a whole and remote work is very inflexible. Every company has its own politics and favorites but here its amplified 100x...if you are a puppet and choose to never voice your opinions, you will be rewarded. CEO and execs refuse to listen to negative employee feedback and will only look at good reviews and say "oh we are doing great, no need for any changes!" Before signing here, do your research and network. Talk to previous employees, get some insight. Look at the turnover in sales. Research competitors and compare the product, marketing, messages, teams, etc. Think about why this company is having such a hard time breaking into enterprise and getting any sort of funding to better the product AND pay employees.

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Malwarebytes Response
6y
Thank you for your honest feedback as we value employee feedback and appreciate you being open and honest. We are working hard to implement additional manager training. Your comments and feedback will be taken into consideration. If you have any other feedback you'd like to share, please feel free to send me an email.
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