Strong security team but compensation needs improvement
Pros
- Good security team leadership, providing a high trust environment with freedom to think about projects that would be helpful to the company. - Good coworkers who actually like working in security. - Engineering teams are fairly security-minded, getting people to fix problems doesn't require pulling teeth. - Engineering/Growth culture allowing breathing room to grow while still working on perpetually interesting challenges. - Company name recognition, have had people know the company even in my extended family from just running into the product. - Flexible working schedule as hybrid as I want it to be. WFH one day, in office the next day. Not the same for the rest of the company but the security team gets to be structured like this due to significant parts of the team being remote.
Cons
- HR doesn't look beyond the last job title when determining compensation. You start low you'll get low comp and promotions are only 1 level at a time even if you're doing L2-L3 work. Went from mid level engineer at a startup to security internship at this company for a career pivot and now after delivering for a while HR put me on L1 rather than back to mid level. - Remains to be seen if HR will fix their mistake or if they will be willing to promote to the correct level or if I need to force a releveling conversation next year after performance reviews given the projects I've been working on. - That being said that "low" is being compared to market rate and is still generally enough to live off of comfortably, so it's a matter of perspective.
