Qualys

1. Salary is on time, and the finance department is good.

2. Read (1) again, because there is nothing else.

Best place for experienced professionals to screw their career big time.

Qualys is the best place to screw your career and lose motivation.

Qualys is NOT serious about a safe and inclusive workplace. Harassment or inappropriate conducts are not investigated. Few female employees went through derogatory comments by managers, yet nothing was done. Speaks a lot of its DNA.

Work environment

1. Work environment is highly toxic than the Fukushima disaster. Employees are treated in an extremely cheap and ugly manner. Experience was not that good wrt work culture, processes.
2. Communication between different teams is worse and ego-based. There is always a simmering tension between people to get to the top. Expect caste based remarks, preferential treatment based on who you are.

Office facilities

1. Satisfactory premises and limited parking. Admin team is active.
2. Food options in canteen are limited and rates are high. No subsidized rates.

Engineering

1. One of the main reasons why Qualys has a high attrition rate and low joining ratio is the engineering management. They have very poor communication and people management skills. It is either one way or get lost type of leadership. Qualys hires smart people and tells them what to do ! As one grows in experience and seniority, one's heart should be larger and mind should not focus on individual faults. Engineering management will demean you based on your caste, religion and bombard you with personal mudslinging. They weaponize fear to rule you. Neither are they concerned with you. Expect work related arrogant emails/messages as late as 11:30 pm or early as 6:30 am if you are on sick leave.
2. Work from home is only for managers. You cannot avail WFH even if you need to. Zero flexibility.
3. If you are expecting world class product work, refactor your imagination. Qualys is that place where a manager decides what to do, how to do, when to do. I have seen product releases delayed by a year due to shortsightedness. Neither do they know product roadmap nor are aware of business pragmatism. Your boss will not listen to your ideas. You will be micromanaged. You have no freedom to choose the best solutions and methods. Your hard work and loyalty are not valued. Engineering management is pushing loyal employees to the point where they no longer care causing disloyalty, conflict and attrition. Neither is there planning in work, nor will your experience be valued. You will be taught to write good code when the managers got promoted by writing bad incomplete code and licking their seniors !
4. You can’t escalate any issue or problem as Godfathers are sitting in senior management. You will be abused by a few managers together over caste and the HR shall take no action on it despite written complaint. The harassment committee has nothing to do with these incidents. They mean business and moral value is the last thing on their mind. Sweatshop for selfish means.
5. 95 % of the engineering management is unprofessional, mannerless and immature. Cheap mentality in recruitment procedure. They want to hire rockstars. Little do they know that the bad treatment of their team members is destroying their chances of getting good talent. Who would work with pathetic, non PMP certified management ? There is communication gap from top management till all the layers across organization. The way projects are handled is at very nascent stages. Managers lack man management skills. Work culture has lots of issues. Shouting, screaming, harassment are essential parts of their work culture.

Onsite/Technical/ Certifications

1. No onsite for hard working professionals. You might work as individual contributor for a longer period into Splunk, ServiceNow, QRadar, Jenkins, internal tools, mentoring new members, documentation, interviewing, etc. etc. all that is required of you, will never feel appreciated or valued nor get any onsite. Only management always gets onsite opportunity by default and not by merit. They will expect you to rub your nose before their feet.
2. Even for certifications, you have to beg to management and end up getting nothing. Management doesn't promote support for certification programs. Management will not allow you to communicate to upper management. Managers are very insecure about top talent existence in team and ridicule experience, contribution, ideas each time to sabotage people's career. Agreeing to manager is not the way forward indeed.
3. Notice period is poorly managed by Qualys. Neither managers talk to you even once during the entire period, nor did they have the ethics to ensure a smooth transition. It is left to you to hand over all work in a professional manner working until the very last day. Note that if you agree with your manager, you will be in good books but taking a right stand will be problematic for you.
4. Management themselves gossip about how Qualys isn't the best place to be at and do the following to vent frustration derived at their homes.
5. Interrupting others
6. Making others feel small and treating them like dogs.
7. Making others believe lies

Appraisal

1. Don't expect good experience in appraisal process. It gets over in 10 minutes with a one-sided discussion with below the belt talks trying to manipulate you for negative control.
2. Work as hard and smart as you can, you won't get promotion or good hike and it is reserved for the "homegrowns". There are people with 10+ experience working as senior engineers and managers have 9+ years. Qualys is the undisputed RSS of Pune IT.

Firing

1. Firing is reserved for those who try to raise their voice against the ill happening in Qualys. When people try to correct the setup with industry practices, that person is fired. HR associates, engineers are regularly fired for trivial reasons at the behest of senior leadership. Current HR too is a puppet. Not once will the senior leadership talk to you on their own. Office culture consists of the following -
2. Not empowered but bullied
3. Have not been given tools and training to succeed
4. Not trusted, supported
5. Not respected and valued beyond the idea of "resource"

The junior whom you train gets promoted as Lead and you stay as Senior Engineer. This preferential treatment only happens at Qualys as managers are scared of some seniors overtaking their positions. Personal experience.

Verdict - There are no worse persons than someone who doesn’t care about others. There are a lot of such people in Qualys. Those who are looking for a professional environment with challenging assignments this is not a suitable choice. Life is beautiful. Don't enter this hell.

1. India Engineering management need to be taught on having technical vision - have clear picture in the first go. They shall not be allowed to burn people by constantly changing the requirements.

2. Fire those India Engineering management who absconded their previous companies and manipulated HR records.

3. Encourage merit and not "homegrown" folks - Get real, get honest. Not a lot of collaboration among different teams and thrive on conflict. Managers enjoy the exalted status and slowly get used to it, have fatal attraction towards their subject and are comfortable discussing their domain and nothing else .As a result,their interaction with the rest of the colleagues is a bare minimum.

4. The employees need to blindly follow the leader without suggesting changes or ideas. Micro managing managers have turned the company into colonial England. Dictatorship and monopoly of chosen people is backed by US leadership.

5. Duly respect employee time. There is no point in having a meeting with team members talking bad about someone who resigned from team. (It happened to me and reported by my team the same day). Managers need to have guts to talk straight and not play dirty politics. Teach managers on manage/train/motivate people.

6. Please be open and stop listening to the small group of people around you who are just interested to protect their job.