ReliaQuest reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

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Brian Murphy

78% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

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5.0
Jan 7, 2019

Don't Dream it, Be it

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Pros

-Job rewards those who put in the effort and not those who sit around and expect promotions for free. Do NOT come here expecting a regular 9-5 job, RQ is not that and the hiring process you go through will make sure you understand that. -Possible 10% raise every 6 months, even if you are denied you will be given a chance to go through the process again and improve were you failed. Most jobs you are LUCKY to get a 5% raise ONCE a year. -Ability to work with every single industry leading SIEM as well as additional endpoint security technologies. -No one you talk to will ever be 'sad' about a workday here, the culture is evident from day 1. -Free food every Friday, free coffee whenever you want it and free ice cold water with SOLO(not Walmart brand) cups.

Cons

-The volume can occasionally be bad but the people here(backed by the culture) will laugh and work through it together. -Occasionally when onboarding a new customer the process is rushed and results in a confusion on how to handle certain processes for that new customer. -Not enough challenges. Even if the challenges do not mean a lateral movement to another team or promotion it would be amazing for people to have the opportunity to earn a unique title within the SOC or learn a new technology. -We are a checkbox for a lot of customers and they will not respond to our escalations which causes you to rework the same alert for the same traffic every other day.

1.0
Jan 6, 2019

Industrial Revolution Labor Model

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most people are young and like minded. High turnover means opportunities for promotion. Good place to get your foot in the door if you have no prior experience. Lower salary is augmented with other perks such as free lunch on Fridays. They spend a lot of money on an annual holiday party.

Cons

You'll be exposed to many tools but will gain little experience outside of SIEM. They invest more money into gaining customers than growing their employees. Many managers are too young and inexperienced to effectively lead a team. There is constant animosity between Tampa and Las Vegas locations. Like all other MSSPs they run a sweatshop with little to no work/life balance. Highly skilled analysts have few opportunities but to leave. Sales teams are treated as easily replaceable and have high turn over. Hiring criteria are highly subjective while relying primarily on low skill/cost. If you're not in the good 'ol boys club you don't have much of a voice. You must drink the Kool-Aid or be relegated to a stagnant career. There are highly disparate compensation rates for those in the same role. There are some fantastic leaders but they're not entrusted to act autonomously. The CEO is arrogant and communicates that lying is just 'entrepreneurship'. The CEO constantly shares self aggrandizing personal stories. The CEO fails to accept criticism well and disparages competition and critics.

1.0
Jan 4, 2019

Honest Review

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Pros

People are fun and easy to get along with. Benifits are pretty good and the base pay is alright starting.

Cons

Management is inexperienced and doesnt know how to effectively lead. They are constantly understaffed and bringing on new clients. Getting raises seems to get more difficult as time goes on. Management seems to push a warped view on how their company is running and constantly disregards the fatigue, burnout or dissatisfaction of their employees. The work here is rather unstimulating and it gets rather monotonous and mundane after just a couple months. It is very much entry level work, if you already have a year or 2 of experience you would probably be better off finding something that you can sink your teeth into. The work is primarily triage and not much else. Being that its providing managed services on select tools, you have very limited visibility into costomer environments which can tend to lead to guess work. The only 2 phases of the incident response lifecycle you will touch is the detection and the analysis phases and then hand off to the customer from there, where you may or may not here back from them. If you are fresh off the boat and are in need if experience, this place may be an option for you. In all actuallity you could probably train anyone off the street on the SOPs in a couple months.

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