Reduced training budget to pinch pennies - Anonymous employee Optiv Employee Review

Thank you for sharing your feedback. We apologize that your request for training has not been processed at a timely manner. At Optiv, we work hard to ensure that requests for training are efficient to process and relevant to the employee and will look into this issue to ensure that a request is not accidentally stuck into the queue. If this happens to be the case, we will correct the issue as soon as possible. We can assure you that budgets for employee training have not changed, as we pride ourselves on having the most highly trained security force in the industry. To your comment about DEF CON, our presence there was significant in 2015 and we have planned on another large investment for 2016, mainly in our experts speaking and attending sessions and collaborating with teammates. Optiv is also partnering with many other conferences and industry events, either through direct sponsorship and/or having our team members share their expertise. In addition, we have planned exciting new training opportunities that will be available to employees, that were not previously offered. Those initiatives are directed towards career growth and development and we are looking forward of rolling them out. We appreciate your feedback and we are committed to ensuring that all of our employees are successful in their careers and training is a vital part of that effort. Please, feel free to reach out to the proper leadership team in charge of these initiatives if you have additional concerns. Thank you for continuing to place your confidence in us!