Pros: Its almost been 3 years and seems right to review my experience with Qualys. I joined Qualys from one of the biggest security companies and just to share the background, there was already a buzz in my previous organization about Qualys opening their center in India due to its image of being a leader in delivering security with cutting-edge technology. So far, it has not disappointing and can say - learnt more in these 3 years than previous experience of 7 years together. Qualys is a place where you would go very far if you are willing to think ahead for your product, take initiatives and execute/deliver them, as you would not have a typical compartmentalization here between Engineering (dev/qa/architects teams), Product Management, Anaysts etc, which was the case with my previous organization, where the roles were strictly defined. And you doing something out of your work role, was considered at 'stepping on each other's foot' there. If you are good at your work and give honest tries to do good things, the exposure and the visibility, you would get here is immense, ranging from taking part in devising strategies, take part in product roadmap discussions, attending and speaking at the leading conferences. On a personal front, Qualys has also supported my domain certifications People are technically sharp, mostly collaborate well. There is definitely less politics and not many people would object/try to pull you down, if you are taking more responsibilities or trying to do something good for the product I recently moved to their Bay Area office and I have heard from lot of people that the Health Plans of Qualys are one of the best in the field. It does support flexi-hour environment, which helped me in taking care of personal priorities, when needed. The salaries of Qualys - Pune, India were definitely 'Above Market', in some cases (if you match their role requirements and they like your profile) in line with companies like Google, Microsoft. The stock options given by Qualys are also 'above-average', which pushes the total compensation high, to be in line with compensations of companies like Google, Microsoft I definitely can say the boss I got here, is the best boss I have got in 10 years, who has knowledge of aspects of engineering, strategies, sales etc., which helps in building the rounded perspective while developing the product.

Cons: On the down side, I have seen its struggle with the Product Management stream. It slows down the pace of giving directions to the product; however mostly it could be because Qualys is an engineering driven company and people here, prefer to talk in technical language than business mostly. On a bright side, it does give an opportunity to engineering folks to drive the product. It takes a bit of time for people to share the knowledge and I have seen they only share if required to. Workload is surely in 'above than average' zone and you would have to juggle between work items.

Pros: I was at Qualys for 7 years so I have a pretty good idea of where the company came from and where it is headed. I was there pre-IPO and I have seen its evolution from a small-size startup company to a mature international industry leader. Qualys is a company that focuses on its products first. It took a huge bet on Cloud Security before it was even a thing and was able to take a huge lead on its competitors. This resulted in the company creating an amazing cloud-first architecture that was able to scale up to millions of scans per day with almost no false positive. It also allowed the company to secure early on a wide variety of customers, from the most prestigious Fortune-100s banks to smaller companies that wanted to secure their networks. With the years, the company's success kept being reflected by its steady and consistent growth, its financial security, and its continuous investment in expanding to new services and products while keeping a huge focus on product quality. I am from Engineering and over 7 years evolved from being a Software Engineer to a Director of Engineering. Every single time I have suggested new ideas or shown a desire to implement new ways to improve the architecture, I was greeted with enthusiasm and freedom to do so by my peers and managers. Showing initiative has always paid off, and I was always credited with the extra work that I provided. This was always done with the product in mind, and there were plenty of other people around me who were rewarded for their hard work. The architecture came with plenty of fascinating technical challenges: we migrated the entire front-end stack from ExtJS to ReactJS, using the latest tech such as ES6 (w/babel) or webpack. The backend is currently evolving from a monolith to a micro-services architecture that relies on an amazing stack (Kafka for messaging, Cassandra/ElasticSearch for non-SQL storage, Redis, etc.) allowing the new services to scale autonomously. This transition has been extremely complex and has been very challenging from all sides. It has required a transformation of the ops team, the devops team and the engineering team. All of this is done amongst very bright engineers who are driven by the passion to produce good code and great products. Engineering-wise, I can promise you that Qualys will provide you with the best opportunity for growth and challenges, while keeping the flexibility of a startup. Benefits-wise, Qualys has come a long way over the years to match some of the best tech companies out there, which include really good pay and year bumps, company-wise bonuses, RSUs with stocks whose value has doubled over the past 15 months, 401K matching, and the most amazing health benefits, for which I am going to pay 3 times that amount for the same coverage at Google. Overall, Qualys is an amazing company to work for, and I have learned and grown so much throughout the years that I have spent there. The direction it is currently taking, with a high investment in a new cutting-edge architecture, mingled with its current position in the market will make the company the leader in the security business. As more and more people are moving to the Cloud, I believe that Qualys will dominate the market in the years to come.

Cons: With so many products and moving parts, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and lose vision of the big picture.

Pros: Great technology, smart engineers, successful SOS business model, competitive salary & benefits

Cons: Leadership, for the most part, is poor. CEO uses fear to get results and his subordinates are afraid to tell him anything other than what he wants to hear. Quarterly meetings are on weekends which seems disrespectful to employees' personal time.