Good place for juniors - Application Security Specialist Digital Boundary Group Employee Review

Great environment, Friendly staff, they value you as an employee and the effort you put towards the conpany

No cons at this time

They were willing to hire people straight out of college to perform pentesting, where most companies require at least 5 years of relevant knowledge. The Dallas office usually felt like you could do whatever you wanted, since there weren't any seniors or management there. Lots of opportunities to teach coworkers new techniques. Some types of tests can be fun and challenging. Pretty cool social events (for London office only, sadly). Made some good friends who kept in touch after most of us left.

Despite constantly talking about growth, 0 people were added to the internal/external team in over two years. As can be seen from LinkedIn, total growth has been consistently negative for years while workload increased. Little to no training initiative to speak of or extra compensation for industry certs. C-level management occasionally casually ridiculing employees or sharing details brought in confidence to other team members. Generally inconsistent direction, causing a frequent "defeated" attitude among testers. Testers were either left to sit on their thumbs or in a mad dash to finish as many tests in as short a time as possible - no in-between. While sales have individual workspaces, testers have either open office or shared cubicles. Sign-on and retention bonuses discussed during onboarding never materialized. Similarly, perks and renovations promised to team years earlier never happened. Frequent gossip among testers. Disconnection between teams, departments, and even tester cliques. Next to no vertical movement or promotion opportunity. Don't recall seeing a single promotion on my team. Poor compensation for the field and area. Profit for C-level staff seemed a higher motivation that employees.