Malwarebytes reviews

3.6

54% would recommend to a friend

(375 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 375 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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375 reviews
2.0
Mar 11, 2025
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Pros

I had a great, collaborative and talented team when I started. The pay, benefits and flexibility were nice. I worked with a lot of great people, but there were definitely some bad apples that ultimately made it a horrible experience.

Cons

My manager was wildly inappropriate on numerous levels. She would change our work that was signed off on by all stakeholders without informing us simply due to her preference which is interesting considering it did not align with our style guide or existing content, often times her changes were not grammatically correct. After returning from maternity leave, my manager asked me repeatedly (6 times minimum) if I was breast feeding - I was not, but also remote, so why she felt the need to repeatedly ask me this was incredibly inappropriate and uncomfortable. When I brought the fact that she was changing our work without informing us to HR, I was laid off a week later. Clearly a case of retaliation. There were numerous instances where she asked various co-workers inappropriate questions - one female coworker was out sick and upon return our manager asked if she was pregnant and proceeded to tell her what a blessing to be with child is. All of this was brought to the attention of HR, nothing was done.

2.0
Jan 22, 2024

Proceed With Caution

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Pros

If you are on the right team, your management team will empower you. The company does hire well. A lot of great talent and good-hearted humans. And when I say that the company hires well, they hire good employees... not leadership.

Cons

I hate that I have more cons than I do pros. However, if you are not on the right team - proceed with caution: - If it isn't a round of layoffs that will show you the door, it will be your management team. I will quote from my former director, "If I don't want you on my team, I will find a way for you to not be on it". Sad, but true. - Your coworkers will have your back; however, management... they will send emails with threats showing you your exit strategy if you have issues with anything that they implement (yes, I understand that a lot of what comes from them is from their leadership. My point is, is that good leadership shouldn't be threatening their employees with exit strategies in order to get them to perform any changes). - They will threaten PIPs; then, without any sort of meeting to tell you why you're doing poorly, simply put you on one. Then, expect you to improve without any guidance (or weekly checkins), and then let you go. If you do end up going on one, best to start looking for a new job. - They will add to your already overfilled plate and make it look like giving you these added tasks will make you a "manager" some day. However, it just burns you out. - Don't expect to have any 1:1's with your direct manager. All they do is travel. - Bottom line: proceed with caution, and keep your eyes/ears open. If if it feels weird - it probably is. You shouldn't be scared when your director or manager emails you because you are unsure if there will be some sort of threat in there showing you your "exit strategy". And you shouldn't feel mentally drained every day when you log off.

1.0
Sep 23, 2022

Pathetic executive leadership has squandered every opportunity

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Pros

- Easy company to get into - An ok place to start if you're interested in Cybersecurity

Cons

- Terrible executive leadership with no plan or real goals. The company has supposedly been focused on Mid-Market for something like 5 years and yet only recently has taken any action in that direction. -What action you ask? Multiple layoffs followed by additional VC funding. Brilliant plan... - Product is a joke. Cannot compete against anyone in the industry. 5+ years into a cloud management console and it still doesn't have the most basic of features like customizable reporting. - Product releases are always half-baked, lacking major features and competitive planning. Enablement is always an afterthought and teams struggle to figure out what features do or why we are even selling them. - Product and Engineering have 0 accountability, good luck getting help from any of them. Product Managers are non-technical and have little clue about what customers want and why. - Pay is low, and non-competitive in the industry. This results and a huge number of entry-level employees joining the company who are then expected to be experts within weeks. Some sellers don't even understand the basics of Salesforce before being expected to close deals. - Way too many False Positives causing massive issues for customers. Time and time again employees are told that these issues have been solved with new processes in the dev cycle and yet somehow they keep happening. Makes you wonder if it is all BS. - The support team is woefully understaffed and can barely meet the needs of the customers. This results in long wait times for business customers who become frustrated over time. - I could keep going on and on but I will end with this final Con, complete and total lack of accountability for all sections of leadership. When things go wrong everyone just points fingers or puts their heads in the sand. Nothing gets solved quickly and no one is taking the time to reflect on what went wrong to create processes to prevent the incident in the future. Each team is heavily siloed and can oftentimes have conflicting incentives that again result in people failing to take ownership of issues as they arise.

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Malwarebytes Response
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Hi, thanks for taking the time to share your experience at Malwarebytes. If you feel comfortable to make yourself known, we’d be happy to connect with you and discuss your concerns. Whether it’s with me, or someone else you trust in the People team to talk things through confidentially, we’d really like to hear more and see what we can do to improve things. Feel free to reach out employerbrand@malwarebytes.com Kind regards, Elvi
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