FireMon Reviews

* The CEO * A culture of mistrust, created by the CEO, which stem primarily from the decisions the CEO has made about concealing and denying, then revealing plans to expand offices to Dallas. Mistrust was further sewn by the lack of communication around the recent exit of the CFO and upper management sales leadership. Mistrust has increased based on decisions further impacting the sales team, including the CEO hiring his neighborhood friend as a sales consultant and promoting him/her to a leadership position, hiring a former coworker as a global sales leader, and dismissing half of the sales team when most had been working for no more than three months * The CEO and new leadership's blatant and insulting lack of knowledge or attempt to understand the product; its sales process; how partners, customers, and vendors interact in the buying and selling processes; and technology in general * The indiscretion and unprofessionalism embodied by the CEO and some of the upper management when discussing individual sales performance, when discussing deals with employees, and when talking about former and current employees both inside and outside of the company * Micromanagement and interrogation from the CEO and upper management * Increasingly empty desks and a fading spirit

FireMon and its many employees have been severely impacted by a perfect storm: 1) The company was sold to private equity form Insight Ventures in early 2015 -- at an absurdly high multiple. 2) The circa 2014 Version 7 of their Security Management product set was a catastrophe and prompted the decision to completely re-architect and streamline the product in Version 8. This curtailed sales and triggered a severe across-the-board downsizing in mid-2015 and caused the release(s) of Version 8 to take more than 2 years. And even then it was severely bug-ridden. 3) The CEO hired by Insight Ventures in mid-2015 was a horrible leader who seemed to alienate everyone in the company and obliterated their strong family culture. 4) While FireMon was attempting to deal with the above issues, their product segment cooled off and other very capable security software firms began to enter it.