ReliaQuest reviews

- The company is on the down turn. A pivot to GreyMatter as a focus has gutted the company of its experience and it’s small business mindset and focus of adaptability has no place in a product company, where decisions can no longer be followed through on a whim. Most days, you just learn someone else that taught you things is leaving. - Senior technical staff receive very little additional training. There was a promise that we’d get INE training months ago. It never happened, and we’re getting stalled. There is very little investment from the company to make you a better employee. - We were promised a competitive salary analysis in December. It “happened” and we got the same raises we would have gotten without it. We weren’t told what adjustments were made to our salaries in order to accommodate these changes. During this same period, the CEO would talk about record breaking sales in COVID on public meetings, and all pay increases were frozen in this period. Now we’re getting massive 20-40% pay raises because there’s an exodus of talented people. (Managers also explicitly say to not talk about these pay raises) - Everyone in management treats you like you’re insane for asking for more money when you get moved around. Moving from an Analyst to a “Detection Engineer” is a lateral move, even though you might just be in charge of a company’s roadmap for security, merely 1 year out of college. The thought of paying you an amount of money that makes sense for that role is out of the question. - Management likes to think that it’s accepting feedback and that “getting it off your chest” is all the solutions you need, but they don’t do much to actually improve things. Check out all the responses to reviews here, and you’ll see the VP of People basically saying “No, you’re wrong, actually we have X.”, “I hope you gave concrete examples in your exit interview.”, and “Please reach out to discuss how we can better support you” - With a focus on internal tooling, much of the previously great experience you’d get touching a ton of industry tools is no longer available. - Though I am in a technical role in the SOC, many positions are in serious trouble here. I’ve never heard a developer say they are happy, I’ve seen delivery managers crying in the hallways, I’ve had women in the office say that working here can be incredibly awkward due to the amount of men making advances on women - including some managers. - Asking to WFH is essentially hell. We originally went to WFH before Florida declared a State of Emergency. We were mandatory return to office in the peak of COVID because “contracts made us.”. Now we get one day WFH every other week. No Mondays/Fridays (because 0 trust). Many times, I’ve walked into the office to find entire departments WFH because of COVID outbreaks. Probably 2-3 times a week. In a now deleted Yammer post, the CEO’s Doctor Friend posted that “COVID doesn’t actually really impact most people, everything is fine. Everyone basically needs to get infected so we get herd immunity.”. People who work here had friends that died to COVID. - Getting selected for managers/promotions is directly tied to how much you’ll lie about GreyMatter to customers. Become a Power User, so you can teach our customers how to use a webform that does an API call named “automate”.

I chose to work here based on Glassdoor saying RQ had a 4.8 rating-as I type this now they are down to 3.8, surely headed lower and lower if they don’t get their act together. Read on to why this is the case. Recruiters and Training team are flat out lying about the culture and they know it. Do not know how they convince themselves to come in to work day after day knowing the propaganda they are spreading is just that, propaganda. CEO is exactly what RQ preaches they do not want at the company, a “show dog.” I have never met or worked for someone so in awe and in love with themselves. This feeling has seemed to permeate through most of the Executive team at this point and does not create a successful environment. Most meeting are just the exec team telling us how amazing they are and we should all feel lucky to be in the same room. You are told “At Team RQ, we want you to be open and honest.” If you do accept a job here do not fall for this. As soon as you challenge anything you are black listed (saw one person who I was told to look up to as a great employee during my interview process, slightly challenge Executive team during a company meeting and they were let go a few days later). If you are an experienced professional used to working for sane, well adjusted, normal adults, you will not fit in (this has nothing to do with RQ having a lot of younger employees-for the most part these younger employees are great). This has everything to do with immature, paranoid, and inexperienced leaders who try and lead by intimidation, guilt, and fear (again this is the exact opposite of what I was told the leadership acted like here during interview/on-boarding). You’ll see the sentiment “if you don’t work hard play hard you won’t like it at ReliaQuest and may want to look elsewhere” in many of the 5 star reviews on Glassdoor. This is used by those still in the honeymoon phase (as within first few weeks you are strongly asked to write a review before you realize the truth), those who may actually be brainwashed by the propaganda, or those who this may be their first corporate job and simply do not know that you are actually allowed to work and still have a personal life. Whether you leave, get let go, criticize a leader and get black listed, the first thing those around you are told is “they didn’t work hard play hard. In reality rarely is that actually the case. The real story is most people after a few months realize they were lied to during the interview and recruiting process, they are not valued by the executive team, see it is a toxic environment, and start looking to move on ASAP. This company really made me question how these magazines determine “Best Places to Work,” as RQ has garnered a few of these accolades. I will no longer put any stake in those that put RQ on this list as it is about as far from a “best place” to work as I have seen. If you truly have a passion for cyber security and what RQ is doing I would follow that passion at a competitor.