No clear vision of business strategy, constant change, and no transparency - Senior Lead Engineer McAfee Employee Review

2.0
7 May 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Competitive pay - Competitive benefits - Talented employees - Company values are practiced widely across the company - There is a general feeling of "we're all in this together" across most teams and cross-team collaboration

Cons

- The company has made so many huge changes throughout the years, from being its own private entity, to selling major ownership to Intel and going public, then Intel selling its majority shares and going private again, to an IPO, and now to selling its entire Enterprise division to venture capitalist firm, Symphony Technology Group. - The company has no clear direction of where it wants to go... it has aimlessly tacked its business strategy numerous times - High churn of company leaders and executives - Ever since the company was hacked in 2019 and hackers accessed product source code, IT has made pushed excessive restrictions & requirements on product teams which require additional resources from product teams although funding for additional resources was never provided - Company executives mislead employees and make huge decisions in secret. There is zero transparency in this matter and typical of "big corp" mentality. Expect to be treated as a just a number (in $$ of course) and replaceable resource. - Since the company is now only focused on their Mobile products division, there is not much growth left as there is very little innovation in this space and the company is fighting to maintain consumer subscriptions (e.g., how many people do you know are still paying for antivirus software?) - Very little career growth

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

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