Stay Away: Toxic Leadership and Poor Job Security – Not Recommended for Engineers with self respect. - Staff Software Development Engineer Zscaler Employee Review

1.0
22 Jun 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive compensation (No job security / Respect & You will need to work under a dictator VP / Senior Manager without any ethics).

Cons

The organization is currently facing a toxic leadership culture, particularly at the VP and senior management levels. Developers, DevOps, and System Engineers receive minimal support, with recognition and job security often sacrificed for leadership’s self-promotion. Decision-making appears to be driven more by internal politics than by performance or merit. Even high-performing employees face the risk of sudden layoffs. The new leadership environment prioritizes personal agendas over collective team success, undermining morale and long-term growth.

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Cons

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Pros

Zscaler’s bread and butter products are great. Excellent pay and benefits. Fast growing technology

Cons

Toxic Mid Level Management looking out for themselves. Employees are easily expendable. Company seems fixated on stock prices and losing its focus on making happy customers. Diabolical review practices. My whole team received reviews from our manager. The SVP of the group then lowered everyone’s rating down a full level without any feedback or reason. The same SVP then laid us all off a few months later.

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