RiskIQ reviews

4.0

69% would recommend to a friend

(68 total reviews)
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Elias Manousos

74% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

RiskIQ has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 68 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The RiskIQ 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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68 reviews
1.0
Mar 7, 2018

Small Fish, Large Pond

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice location, unlimited PTO, free snacks

Cons

CEO micromanages EVERYTHING, high rate of turnover, company can't figure out what it wants to be when it grows up, people bringing in dogs when there is limited space for actual employees, not enough meeting space. Employees that use their relationships with senior leadership for their own agendas.

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As I posted before in response to another review, we have an ambitious mission: to build a self-sustaining, growing and profitable security business, consistent with our three core values: (1) customer-first; (2) passionate curiosity; and (3) get your hands dirty. As such, my co-founders and I are deeply involved in our business, and we hold others to account on fulfilling on our mission and living our values. For the most part, our employees are aligned with this. But for those employees who are not, it may occur as micromanaging and profit-driven. Nevertheless, I thank you for your contribution to RiskIQ.
1.0
Oct 18, 2017

Poor Execution and Lack of Leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Downtown San Francisco, Ability to work from home, food and beer are always in stock, unlimited PTO.

Cons

It's a turn shop. When I was there I couldn't keep track of the people coming and going. Risk can't keep good employees. The vision isn't what it used to be. The CEO must be drinking his own kool-aid because I was informed they just went through a series of layoffs due to poor performance. The managers just have titles and they don't manage. It's as if start-up tech companies haven't learned anything from Uber. Retaliating on people is noticeable, and these so-called managers promote it as if its a game.

2.0
Sep 11, 2017

Lots of potential, unable to execute

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Extremely diverse company, many of the employees are fun to drink with after work - Very interesting problems to solve - A wide range of different types of customers - Good benefits - Great location in SF - Some really smart team members

Cons

- The company appears to change direction on a regular basis and it feels as though the company doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up (lack of strategic direction) - Extremely high turnover of employees, some in key positions - A significant amount of employees appear to be "coasting" and don't appear to have a vested interest in the success of the company (including some of the management) - For such a small company, nearly every group operates in a vacuum and if you aren't constantly asking what other departments are doing, you will never find out about it until weeks or even months later (if at all) - Extremely slow to execute, most problems are never solved and the only thing you can count on is that if something will take more than a month to complete, it will not be completed - Leadership is paralyzed by indecision, they also constantly contradict/overrule each other, hard decisions are rarely made - I feel sorry for people who work outside of SF. The communication in the office would be what one considers poor, for people outside of the office it is probably non-existent - Reviews on glassdoor are not representative of the company. Most reviews are from people that don't know better or aren't experienced enough to realize there are issues (as others have mentioned, there was an HR push for more reviews to offset the negative reviews) - Failures are never discussed or addressed, postmortems are unheard of, any deal losses or customers that don't renew are always someone outside of the companies fault and excuses are plentiful

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