Absolute Terrible Management Team and CEO - Anonymous employee EdgeWave Employee Review

1.0
Oct 5, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some of the more tenured employees are great, hard working people to work with. The location is also great- convenient to everything for errands during lunch or after work.

Cons

Dave Maquera was hired as CEO in the 2012/13 time frame and has made one bad decision after another. Lou Ryan the Chairman of the Board and prior CEO is "checked out" and just wants to sell the company for 5 or 10 times what it's worth as he's the largest share holder. Upper management (VP and SVP levels) turned over many times within months. And SVP of Sales was hired (not the current one) that was harassing, violent tempered, intimidating, and even had a criminal record and wore a house arrest ankle bracelet, yet Dave turned a blind eye to all of this. Upper management is atrocious and went from Public back to Private just to have less to answer to with the SEC. They claimed they had money in the bank that was actually a credit line from Silicon Valley Bank. How they continue to get VC is beyond me.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jul 30, 2015
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Pros

Worked with some really great people, who unfortunately have the same outlook. This caused a lot of negative (and hilarious) "water cooler" talk.

Cons

EdgeWave has been, and most likely always will be the laughing stock of the cybersecurity industry. Email solution is OK, but still gets beaten out in deals by competitors that actually take part in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Web security solution is 20 years behind. You're better off having nothing in place. It can't even stop a 5th grader from going to a porn site. The Huawaii firewall... well, it's a Chinese firewall. This is the United States, and China is one of our biggest adversaries when it comes to cyber warfare. When you are trying to sell a Chinese firewall to a company in the US, how do you think that deal is going to play out? Oh yeah, and I think they fired the only person that knows how to install them.

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