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Good company, poor CTO

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Netskope for 2 years
March 9, 2020
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

The company has a great vision of becoming the iconic company in the security domain and has lots of customers in the financial domain.

The sales team is super strong.

The CEO is good at sales and a good leader.

There are challenging problems to solve.

Great infra team.

Good snacks.

Cons

The new engineering leader fired the old employees at the higher management level and brought in folks from his previous company to replace them.

There is no diversity at the engineering higher management level, which negatively affected the company culture.

The engineering leader used foul language all the time in meetings, without caring if there were any female employees present.

This is not good for the company's brand.

The so-called architects wrote such poor code that it was hard to scale the services without rewriting them completely.

The senior engineers did not care about quality.

The free food was not great, as no attention was given to employees' feedback.

Advice to Management

Pay attention to the culture. Improve diversity. Focus on quality.

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