Imperva Reviews

Cons

Moving at such a pace, less focus on forward strategy

Cons

No marketing.
Focus is all about the revenue numbers and nothing else.
Feast and famine approach to allocation of resources. Field teams are world class struggling for resources and get limited support from central functions that seem to be ballooning in size.

Cons

smaller company so HR is based in USA which means it takes longer to get things done and looked at.

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Technology sales is not the easiest, especially when there is a shortage in technical resources.

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Still a bit of incertainty till Thoma Bravo acquisition will be completed.

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Constant changes in the company, not stable

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CEO Chris Hylen is widely viewed as responsible for the high attrition rate
  Unpredictible mood, behavior swings, and direction to staff
 Exec Staff behave like they never know when or why the next swing will occur
Tech innovation has slowed to a crawl
Customer and employee retention have become big challenges
Finance and G&A continue to slow Sales execution with processes not seen at much larger public companies
Customer Support used to be a differentiator, not so today
"Imperva Credo" corporate values are a step in the right direction if demonstrated from the top down - which unfortunately employees generally agree is not happening yet
Run like an MBA project (work groups, streams, teams, exec offsites to Normandy to walk the battle fields...) with very little interest or understanding of what will actually delight customers

Cons

We told you the issues now listen to Gandhi and be the change

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Where do you start?

The company is being run by the boys club, who only care for themselves. Cutting down people and getting promoted for the vanity of your own ego is the rule of the day. Promoting or hiring those who know how to fluff your feathers in the right way and feed those hungry egos.

Reorganise the business, spent countless millions on Consultants, jam it down everyone’s throats, then turn around 6 months later and basically move things back to the way they were. Great stuff.

 “Radically transparent” business only to have the greatest tin ear, never listen to staff, field managers, customers or partners. More concerned about a high NPS.

Staff are openly admonished in forums for not giving the right answer or questioning decisions. So, no one says anything.

Asking middle managers and staff to buy into change and new programs, burning endless hours trying to contribute. Then all of that thrown out as decisions have already been made.

Management team cringing at the sight of having to speak and interact with the minions is the best. Even customer engagements by management aren’t part of the brief now. Off-sites and extravagant meetings in faraway places are the call of the day for the management team to pat each other on the back.

Politics at all levels reigns supreme, people who are not in touch with the regime are white anted and cut down.

Great people have left the business and attrition is now accepted as “if they don’t like it, who cares”

Cons

Many changes during short period of time. Makes the employees to feel unsafe