Avoid avoid avoid! - Account Executive Malwarebytes Employee Review

1.0
8 Jun 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

nice office pre-covid, co-workers were good people to work with, good consumer product

Cons

micro-management, low pay, lots of favoritism (you better be an obedient puppet if you want to be liked and promoted). Sales leadership is very anti-WFH and loves to humiliate people in public. Toxic culture unless you are a favorite. Product cannot compete with true enterprise competitors...they need to stop trying to play in the big leagues and just be a consumer oriented company. They can't attract good product or engineers because the pay is so low so as a result, the product is not that great. CEO is very immature and impulsive. Not a good person outside the office either.

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Malwarebytes Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re happy to hear that you had a positive experience with our offices, wonderful people, and product. We take feedback like this seriously and are putting things into place to improve. Evaluating our compensation practices has been, and still is, an ongoing effort to benefit our employees and remain competitive within our industry. As a People Team, leadership and team development are, and always will be, a key to our continued success. We want to always be growing and adapting to the needs and feedback of our teams to make Malwarebytes a great place to work for years to come.

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