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Fun outings and stock options can't mask toxic culture and worst management i have seen

Senior QA Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Qualys for 1 year
July 8, 2026
Pune, India
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Outings and parties every quarter and stock options

Cons

Many -

Toxic culture To structure of work responsibilities Too much politics

Requirements are not clear manager has no clue what tasks to give they put evwrything on you

New rules keep coming to micromanage like complete 9 hours in office daily for 4 days minimum

Legacy and outdated products no innovation

No kt given to new people or help everything is your responsibility and feedback is given ob basis of how good you are with groups and manager as they call it 360 degree but old people are in groups and they don't welcome new people and their ideas to improve existing products.

Advice to Management

Need to change management as very clueless management is there they don't know which direction to pick and what to prioritize, they put new requirements of clients to engineers and if you can't do they will put blame on you as they also don't have proper planning of release cycles. Managers mostly here are unaware of tech knowledge and very disorganized way of giving work.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
1.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
3.0
Career Opportunities
2.0
Compensation and Benefits
3.0
Senior Management
1.0

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