Vanta reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(216 total reviews)

Christina Cacioppo

84% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Vanta has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 216 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vanta employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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216 reviews
2.0
May 4, 2026

Burnout Factory

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most roles offer the flexibility to work remotely. The product is well-regarded in the market, and the company continues to grow. Healthcare benefits are solid and competitive. The environment is fast-paced, with an expectation to ramp up quickly and contribute from day one. While support may be limited, this creates an opportunity to learn rapidly and build skills in a short amount of time. This is a good fit for someone who thrives in a high-energy setting, though it may be challenging for those looking for a more gradual onboarding experience.

Cons

There are too many layers of management and not nearly enough support staff to actually get work done. Leadership is often ineffective and heavily focused on micromanaging rather than enabling teams to succeed. At the executive level, there’s a clear emphasis on public image over employee well-being or building a healthy company culture. The environment is chaotic and reactive—everything is treated like an emergency. Employees are routinely expected to perform work well above their role and pay grade, with little to no support. If you struggle under those conditions, the response is punitive rather than supportive. Turnover is extremely high, and leadership does not seem to address the root causes. The company sells the role as a great opportunity during the interview process, but the reality does not match—felt like a bait-and-switch. “Flexible PTO” is misleading in practice. Taking real time off is difficult without falling behind, and catching up often means working nights or weekends. Work-life balance is essentially nonexistent, with constant after-hours emails, Slack messages, and texts.

1.0
Apr 27, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is decent I guess although badly unbalanced between regions

Cons

Bullying and targeting against individual employees is common. The company completely fails to protect employees from malicious managers or do any kind of due diligence. Employees are completely at the mercy of managers. In order to advance their own careers, managers PIP and fire employees to make themselves look decisive and like they were actively managing their employees well. Engineering leadership is full of sharks and if you are naive or if you'd just rather keep your head down and do good work you will be easy prey. The culture is bad. The tech stack is completely wrong. It is among the most immature engineering cultures I’ve experienced in my career. A huge chunk of the developers at the company are completely incapable of solving novel problems independently and can only follow established patterns, many of which are bad. Engineering isn’t represented in the C suite at all, the head of engineering reports to the Chief Product Officer. Consequently the company is a feature factory with no engineering vision at the top level. Experienced engineers have been leaving the company in droves lately. The culture feels incredibly corporate and stultifying for the size and age of the company. They are obsessed with process and procedure and leadership micromanages many aspects of day to day team execution like which meetings/ceremonies we have to have and how we plan our work and use JIRA. Almost all the code is in a single application, which is not continuously deployed but is only deployed every hour. Staging releases get manually QAed by a third party company and only released to prod if they pass. So it’s not uncommon for most of the day’s prod deploys to be skipped because the staging deploy isn’t passing QA and the team that owns the bug isn’t being very responsive. And then a huge prod deploy of 300 changes goes out representing the last 24 hours of work. And testing coverage is lacklustre so the odds of that deploy having a production issue are high. There are multiple incidents, rollbacks, and hotfixes most days. There isn’t a clear explicit plan for breaking up the single application into multiple applications, which is the only solution to the problem. There has been a failure to follow any sort of typescript best practices, both due to lack of care and lack of anyone with advanced typescript knowledge at the company until recently. The types are a Lovecraftian monstrosity and it takes 20+ minutes to typecheck the whole application. This is a major reason CI and the merge queue are always backed up. There is headcount allocated to fixing this problem but it’s simply not enough. All the C suite cares about is features, so Engineering Initiatives get short shrift. The CI and deploy pipelines are not scaling. Something breaks nearly every day causing CI and deploys to freeze for hours. The merge queue time hits 2+ hours nearly every day. They are planning to grow from 300 to 500 engineers this year and I can’t imagine how bad it’s going to be. They are not investing nearly enough into DX to support the scale. If you work here, look forward to a multi-day development cycle at all times.

4.0
Apr 24, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good benefits, OTE is high, eligible for overtime Lots of enablement, and a path to AE (although that path is changing) emphasis on adopting ai and prospecting tools product market fit in downmarket is strong

Cons

Quota attainment is vastly different across segments, but the promo path is the same for months of attainment. Growth segment and up, everyone struggles to hit quota. upmarket product market fit is not there yet

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