Pros: I worked for Qualys for many years before abruptly leaving after I could no longer handle the stress fostered by poor senior management decisions, lazily thought out technical decisions, and the abundance of the half-baked "proof of concept" features inevitably being forced into production. That said, in the beginning things were great. When I started with Qualys there was a great sense of opportunity and excitement about new products. My managers were some of the best that I ever worked with and seemed very concerned with my growth and morale. I always felt appreciated for my contributions and was offered great incentives to continue performing at a high level. I was with the company during the IPO and received great options, and was, like many others, focused on doing the best I could to help the company grow and keep the stock price on the uptrend. This is when I started seeing things change for the worse.

Cons: Slowly, after the IPO, the culture shifted to one where the only thing that mattered was delivery dates and getting fragile, hacked-together code out the door. Technical debt began to accumulate at a ridiculous rate. Those aforementioned managers that I enjoyed working with started leaving and were replaced with much less experienced and less capable people. Regular 45-50 hour weeks gradually increased to 70+, with people reaching out at all hours. In the end, I felt like my job was to put out fires rather than to proactively do any meaningful work. There was no change in sight and morale was at an all-time low. It was truly sad to see a company I loved working for change into a place I dreaded working.

Pros: Healthcare benefits, flexible timing, good technology

Cons: There is the worst management, promises of hikes and benefits were not kept, very slow salary growth exists, and there is cost cutting everywhere.

Pros: - Medical benefits are a great, like everyone else has said. - Stock is OK (see below)

Cons: - Management at all levels is non-existent, clueless, ignorant or just plain stupid. - Stock is OK - You will get excited about how high it has gotten just to watch it plummet 15-20 points when you can actually sell it. - They are slowly getting rid of all US employees in favor of hiring tons of cheap labor in Pune. Most of those folks barely know what a computer is or what it does. You get what you pay for. - You get to work tons of ridiculous hours because the HQ office is shifting its hours to IST. Enjoy. - A great place to learn how to use technology incorrectly. Want Docker containers? Throw the equivalent of a VM's worth of stuff in there and then ask for 32G of RAM and 16 vCPUs. Why is everything falling over? Good times. Want parity between Engineering environments and Production? Forget that! Want CI/CD? We have your Crappy Integration and Crappy Deployment right here ... - Engineering department is the equivalent of a 6-year old kid constantly distracted by the latest "shiny" new toy. No picking something and making it work well. Just constantly blaming the tool of choice because they used it incorrectly and moving on to the next tool to blame. - The list goes on and on...