Varonis Systems reviews

• Heavy investment in perks that attract candidates, but less focus on long-term retention • Relatively high turnover • Compensation growth is modest: no bonuses, small raises, limited RSU refreshers • Cost-consciousness affects developer hardware, IDEs, and tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot restrictions) • Frequent organizational changes and team reshuffles reduce stability • Decision-making is highly centralized around the VP of R&D, creating a political environment and limiting autonomy • Promotions and hiring can feel influenced by alignment with leadership • Top-down decisions with limited input from engineers • Startup-like work-life balance despite company size • Technology stack historically lagged industry standards; still catching up in some areas • Large DevOps group, but teams often build and maintain pipelines themselves • Reserved office atmosphere with limited social cohesion • Culture sometimes feels tolerant of mediocrity rather than performance-driven

The worst company WLB i came across for TL level and up. Toxic atmosphere, where decision are made based on how much organizational power you or your manager has in the organization. R&D Management is poor, scared of taking chances and very little room for innovation, as decisions are made to please higher management, not to improve the service. Hiring is done on the bases of 'if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen', instead of people that can build properly to prevent the heat. Classic "Hero mentality" to solve production issues, but not to prevent them- (where the glory in that) Nepotism in decision making. Pay-to-win architecture- relaying on huge resource pool instead of smart design.