Mass layoffs and terrible management - Program Manager Zscaler Employee Review

1.0
Oct 31, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

None - This company has become a dumpster fire.

Cons

Management/leadership is terrible. People are nothing more than pawns in the schemes of upper management. Mass layoffs are happening regularly and the attrition rate is insane. Leadership talks of a "new strategy" to justify mass layoffs, while hiring more middle managers and sales staff. Word of advice to potential employees and even investors - Zscaler will implode as it destroys the teams that built the company up where it is today. The leaders are soulless corporate money-grubbers who preach about the benefits of AI, but in reality can show no concrete benefits other than numbers they've cooked.

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Pros

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Cons

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