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Owl Cyber Defense

Is this your company?

Avoid at all costs - run, take your talent elsewhere. - Anonymous employee Owl Cyber Defense Employee Review

1.0
8 Jun 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None, other than primarily work from home.

Cons

Terrible, self-serving, oblivious management with no clear business plan; total disorganization that negatively impacts the line worker. No sense of team work or collaboration; every man (literally) for himself. Managers saving favorable work and accounts for themselves and leaving lower level employees with scraps (and then blame those employees for lackluster results). Blatant lack of diversity - gender and race. Micromanagement that is suffocating and demoralizing . Broken corporate culture; browbeating, intimidation, shaming. Astonishingly arrogant c-suite. Zero frills - no compensation for setting up home office; no meaningful employee incentives/morale boosters of any kind. Clear lack of company interest in the development of it's employees. Lack of appropriate resources to support the volume of work.

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Owl Cyber Defense Response
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Owl takes these reviews very seriously. We strive for every employee to have a positive experience and we clearly had a disconnect here. Owl senior leadership prides itself in supporting our employees’ professional growth and treating one another with kindness and respect. Like many engineering companies, we are working to improve diversity and inclusion and recently hired 5 women for technical summer internships and support diverse teams globally. We hold our teams accountable for results and offer remote/flexible working arrangements for all staff. Owl offers many perks including Health club Reimbursement, LinkedIn Learning, Flexible PTO, Summer Fridays, Door Dash and more. We wish you nothing but the best in your future endeavors. For any future candidates, please read through other Glass Door reviews.

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CEO approval
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Pros

Good PTO and benefits and good people.

Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Very poor communication style, rules keep changing and the employees are not updated on these changes creating havoc and chaos with normally simple tasks. Becoming more and more cutthroat and chaotic. Very clear pattern of 'hire new employee, let go of senior employee 6-12 months later". consider yourself warned. The raises have been very low past few years. Upper management does this thing where all year they tout how well the company is doing and how we are greatly exceeding our revenue goals, and then come Q4, all of a sudden we are short on those goals and the year isn't looking too hot. Seems to clearly be setting low expectations for raises and bonuses. Upper management wasn't always like this, but seems really interested in squeezing every employee for every last drop of profit.

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