Optiv reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(734 total reviews)
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Kevin Lynch

47% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Optiv has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 734 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Optiv employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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734 reviews
1.0
Aug 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good in the past, unfortunately.

Cons

Once a good company, but new services leadership brought in in 2018 are destroying the practice from within. Consultants are leaving in droves (why do you think there are so many positions offered?), because the new management has NO CLUE what they are doing, and abusing consultants in the process. They are treating consultants so badly they are quitting on the spot, even during engagements. New senior leadership brought in cronies who badmouth the once-successful offerings because others invented them. Successful practice leaders who grew their business units into multi-million enterprises with 30% YOY growth are demoted into low paying jobs as a reward. Once-flagship consulting offerings are now conspicuously absent from new marketing collateral, despite HUGE success in the past. New leaders are sowing division among the ranks. The new leaders coming in have no clue what's going on, not communicating because they don't know what to say. Successful consultants are being reassigned into positions they don't want, in hopes they will leave. It's almost as if new leadership is hired to destroy the services organization they are supposedly leading. Morale is at an all time low. The last straw: implementation of a supposedly "anonymous" feedback service implemented in Workday; most consultants see through it as a way of identifying the nay-sayers so that they can be walked out the door. This was once a great company.

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Optiv Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. Change is never easy and our journey as the leading security solutions provider in North America has been very fast paced to meet the demands of the cyber security industry. Our clients demand a lot from us to acheive their cyber security business ojectives and our consultants lead the way through their expertise in a very challenging and rewarding field.
2.0
Sep 13, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Potential & Work/Life Balance Optiv's has the potential to be an incredible business, based on the wide range of servcies it delivers to a high dollar industry. However, they are disconnected from that industry. There is an identity crisis at play. The management team that came in from Deloitte has cannabalized the people and services that made Optiv what it was. They want to be thought leaders but are behind the eight ball on what the industry is actually focused on. They think people will buy because they're lead consultants came out of 3-letter agencies or big consulting shops, and because of this have stopped listening to the voice of the customer. Working from home and having flexible hours is great, but frnakly, you can get thta most anywhere these days.

Cons

Dishonest and Misleading leadership. They did a quiet RIF in order to avoid reporting layoffs and paying severance to people who deserved better. The people at the helm are lost in the sauce with getting an IPO on their resume and don't realize they are losign customers because of it. Benefits are garbage and seemingly changes every year. People have been in tears of frustration because they have to change doctors or can't get support (and one of them had cancer). This company is very disorganized and has many convaluted processes. Its frustrating to get the simplest of things done for a customer that would be table stakes elsewhere. They don't really promote form within. Only saw it happen twice.

2.0
Sep 22, 2017

Countdown to Fire Sale!!!

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Pros

Unique market position, the services and products sold are always in demand. Pockets of some of the industry's best and brightest, negated by incompetent leaders and vision.

Cons

Continuous confusion on company identity, compensation is feast or famine. If you are not already on this bus, don't bother, there is no room for mid-level "outsiders". Long time sales reps are coddled while new and mid-tier reps and regions suffer from the quota dump to sustain growth. Also OBSCENE non-competes that make employees indentured servants. They need a good lawsuit that reminds them you can't "own" people. The cool individual cultures of what made Fishnet and Accuvant special are LONG gone. Blackstone and KKR are vultures picking this carcass clean of what is left before they dump it for pennies on the dollar.

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Optiv Response
8y
Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear you feel negatively about the direction of the company and employee compensation. At Optiv, we truly believe that our employees are our biggest asset. We have made a renewed commitment to all of our people to further ramp up communication so that everyone is aware of our strategic vision and direction, and knows exactly how they contribute. Thank you for being on the Optiv team and we wish you best of luck with your future endeavors.
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