Great people, but poorly run by executives - Anonymous employee Optiv Employee Review

2.0
Feb 3, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, Remote work for some roles, productivity based, flexibility. Unlimited recharge policy. Customer and partner relationships. We still have the core of a great company, and we can turn this ship around.

Cons

Executive leadership only seems concerned with selling the company to satisfy desires of VC owner. Many misleading statements and lack of transparency. Business has trended down due to mismanagement and competition lately. Executive staff has turned over 2 or 3 times during the tenure of the current CEO. New CRO seems to want to run a vendor playbook which may not work for a VAR. Sales quotas increase year over year with little increase to salaries and no variable comp bonus plan increases. Promotions have been on hold for almost 3 years. Health care is relatively expensive. 401k match on the smaller side. The article by S&P Global gave many employees our first real insight to our financial health.

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Great work-life balance in the company

Cons

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Pros

Unlimited PTO Supportive Management Depending on who you get Good work life balance as long as you don't take the job with you after hours Work from Home Hands on Training - could still use improvement Annual pay increase

Cons

2 layoffs in a year when they keps saying everything was fine.... Laying off core contributors so now everyone who is left is doing the work of 2-3 people and not being compensated accordingly Only way to get a worth while pay increase is to move up in the company the annual increases are not inline with inflation or cost of living

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