Qualys

Office politics (If you are good at that, you will excel here)

Management is clueless and foster back-stabbing and incompetence. Most of the development and QA managers are incompetent, immature and downright unprofessional. Their only talent is in harassing their teams and intimidating team members into getting their own way. If you crave abuse please join this company and you will have a great time. These same managers recently were successful in driving away a VP who made the cardinal sin of trying to hold them accountable.

Upper management and product managers are complete idiots who have no idea what the customers actually want. They are too busy in getting themselves promoted. Proof of this is in the declining stock. Every few months some new campaign is launched which has no takers simply because these don't align with customer needs. The other issue is that the so called "data platform" does not scale and poor customers who get fooled by the controlled demos during QSC and other forums are unable to use anything. Qualys management is always sucking up to customers by offering them heavy discounts just to keep the accounts.

The support team and "SRE" team are imbeciles. Some of them even lack basic English speaking and writing skills. The shining example is the head of the SRE team who uses expressions like "I cannot able to do XYZ".

HR is non-existent and their only job is social media marketing e.g. videos on LinkedIn exemplifying the life at Qualys. It is all hogwash. HR will regularly participate in employee harassment. To take an example, it doesn't matter if you are on leave and have informed the team. If your superior complains to them, they will call you and harass you to no end.

Fire all of the incompetent managers and get in fresh blood who can take tough decisions and hold teams accountable.

I am 100% sure this advice will be neglected since management itself is the biggest problem area here.