Used to be a great place to work, not so sure now
Pros
-Quarterly bonuses -On-prem office has really nice amenities and is in a great location with great parking and good security considerations -Optiv cares about the safety of its employees -Unlimited vacation -Depending on the department, you will get bootstrapped with lots of training -Technology positions start with good pay
Cons
-Company execs and SVPs are jumping off/getting fired left and right -My pay at Optiv never increased more than 3% a year -Execs continue to use the same platitudes during townhalls, instead of acknowledging the overwhelmingly obvious negative changes and unknowns -My position was dumbed down into an administrator position from an engineer position once solutions were abandoned/consolidated -Due to turnover brain drain, nearly all the knowledge of each service [technologies] is held by a few people, so some teams' most-experienced engineers have enormous burnout. -Strong emphasis to return to the office from WFH for new hires and certain departments -Benefits average, at best -No sense of culture after 2020. Covid didn't kill the culture, layoffs and people leaving killed the culture -No opportunities or encouragement to learn [workshops, education credits, cross technology shadowing] after you learn your job. -My work dried up as the market for my technology changed and most of my day [and my coworkers days] were spent being underutilized. My work-life balance was GREAT because I had no work. Some may like this, but I didn't. -Layoffs are occurring as under-performing technologies and departments are being consolidated and closed. Layoffs seem to be from the top with no managerial input and others have said that Optiv is trying to minimize PR damage with NDAs tied to severance and legal threats on employees.