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Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Qualys for 2 years
March 12, 2019
Foster City, California
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
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...

Advice to Management

There is no point in listing anything here. They aren't reading this and they clearly care less. Look at all the recent reviews. Any recent 5-star review is likely them trying to bolster their crappy outlook. You will generally find that the 5-star reviews have very little meat to them. Just the minimum words to get by.

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