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Chris Hylen
42 Ratings
Pros
"Convenient - good work/life balance" (in 10 reviews)
"Interesting, high end technology, great people" (in 16 reviews)
Cons
"Company in transition, lots of changes should be expected" (in 6 reviews)
"New CEO made a lot of changes that impacted the overall atmosphere and made some good people to leave" (in 9 reviews)
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"Fast paced, Great industry"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Imperva full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Dynamic, fun and with a real can do approach. You can make a difference to this business.
Cons
Moving at such a pace, less focus on forward strategy
Advice to Management
Communicate strategy more, get in front of the employees
Imperva 2016-10-05 08:41 PDTHelpful (2)
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"Where's the plan?"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOPros
Great technology, . Incapsula cloud service is second to none. Data and WAF are market leading.
Great people, tenured sales team are very strong and great presalesCons
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.Advice to Management
Set out a vision for the whole company that makes it clear what the organization wants to be both as perceived by the market and the people who work there.
Change the focus to helping the field teams to be successful rather than blaming them for the weaknesses of the central teams.Imperva 2016-06-06 09:17 PDT![Imperva Logo]()
"Overall Review"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookI have been working at Imperva full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Good team of people
Product is becoming more relevant to the market place
chance for growth and moment both for yourself and the companyCons
smaller company so HR is based in USA which means it takes longer to get things done and looked at.
Imperva 2015-11-30 03:41 PST![Imperva Logo]()
"Sales Development Representative"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Imperva full-time
Pros
Good and friendly culture among the EMEA SDRs. Supportive management and great possibilities to get good commission if targets are hit.
Cons
Technology sales is not the easiest, especially when there is a shortage in technical resources.
Imperva 2014-10-21 02:18 PDTHelpful (5)
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"Radical Transparency"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Imperva full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Market leading tech
WAF becoming more commoditized
Database is still green field with upside and very few competitors
Passionate people
Paying market or above to new hires to compensate for above average attrition rate
Efforts underway to address problem areas for over a year since new CEO joinedCons
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 customersAdvice to Management
Go out and listen to customers with your own ears. Execs have a "no fly zone" for 30-45 days. It's a nice concept, but they should have a "fly zone" to ride along on as many sales meetings as they can for 30 days.
Treat employees as you would like to be treated
Stamp out hypocrisy
BOD inspection and coaching of CEO behaviorImperva 2018-09-14 05:27 PDTHelpful (2)
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"Feels like a case study in robotics, not a company with working people"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at Imperva full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Has a good name in WAF.
Moving to cloud security with potentially great collaborations with Amazon and Azure.
Name not attached to any big cyber crime break in.
Still has a good name becauae founders were also the inventors of the firewall.Cons
Oh boy, where do I begin..
Data security is crumbling - people are leaving and the replacement rate is not nearly fast enough.
CEO said to focus first of improving existing product, then move on to new features, but nothing of the sort is done.
NOTHING is done to encourage people to stay. The great minds that made this company have left, their second-best have left.
"Transperancy" means there's now a weekly live webcast of the buzzwords and meaningless slogans under the name "product review".
Also, there's a weekly "open door" session in which the high management get to talk to the CEO online and none of the R&D grunts are intreviewed and so doesn't care.
Pay is lower than average in the industry but the excuse for that is giving RSUs and an ESPP program. Stock price goes one-step-back-two-steps-forward since October.
New credo values preached and chanted like Stalinist propaganda.Advice to Management
The Israel R&D centers are not your sugar plantation you come to visit once every six months to talk to the forman and preach to the workers.
Learn the language, learn the culture, talk to us in a way that will make us trust you.
We are leaving you in droves.Imperva 2018-09-15 05:31 PDT![Imperva Logo]()
"pretty good"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Imperva (More than a year)
Pros
awesome technologies, good people, startup spirit, nice kitchen
Cons
base salary could be higher
Imperva 2018-08-16 11:43 PDTHelpful (4)
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"Once bright cybersecurity company"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Imperva full-time
Pros
- Intelligent people whom you'd love to work with
- Well-stocked kitchen and fun company events
- Various departments staffed by people who consistently went above and beyond in delivering resultsCons
- Low morale since the management change in mid 2017
- Reshuffle of management team and many key positions over the past 12 monthsAdvice to Management
- Eliminate inefficiency
- Listen to your employees
- Reward and retain the best performersImperva 2018-08-05 18:40 PDT![Imperva Logo]()
"Refactor in progress, heading to a great place!"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Imperva full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Becoming (again) a fast growing and highly technical place to work at.
Cons
The reorganisation still in progress, can be stressful.
Advice to Management
Keep the road ahead clear, tell employees about future changes and why they're being done.
create a better connection between the US and IL offices.Imperva 2018-08-11 19:40 PDT![Imperva Logo]()
"Great Place to Work"
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RecommendsApproves of CEOI have been working at Imperva full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Interesting, high end technology, great people
Cons
Nothing I could think about
Imperva 2018-08-07 12:04 PDT
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