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      4.6

      86% would recommend to a friend

      (55 total reviews)
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      David Ulevitch

      90% approve of CEO

      82% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.7

      Diversity and inclusion

      4.6

      Culture and values

      4.5

      Work/Life balance

      4.4

      Career opportunities

      4.3

      Senior management

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      OpenDNS has an employee rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 55 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The OpenDNS employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      55 reviews
      3.0
      12 Jan 2015

      Mixed feelings - Don't believe all the positive reviews

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - Compensation is pretty good. - I learned a lot just by having smart people around me. - Catering. - Work/life balance.

      Cons

      - HR solicited all these glowing employee reviews - so when something seems to good to be true, it usually is too good to be true. - Clique-ish culture - Lots of Ex-Sophos folks that keeps hiring their friends. Members of the clique include managers and protect each other. If you screw up and you're a part of the clique, don't worry, your manager will do his best to make sure that nobody else knows. If you screw up but you're not part of the clique, be ready for public shaming. - Quite a bit of technical debt. - Plenty of middle management that seem to collect a paycheck for not really producing much.

      3.0
      10 Mar 2015

      Slow moving company moving in the right direction

      Regional sales manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Unique security solution that is easy to implement and rollout. OpenDNS uses big data analytic's from seeing 3-4% of the worlds internet traffic through its 20+ worldwide DNS DC's. It takes this information and is able to predict where threats on the web are: malware, phishing threats, etc.

      Cons

      CEO is the founder. He was a kid when he started and still is today - young, immature and green. A good hacker but a poor leader. It's key for him to hire the right C levels to execute the vision and strategy. Place has turned into a grind shop - high pressure, micro-managing, high expectations - little reward little recognition... very unbalanced. Company is slow moving - been around for 9 years and is trying to penetrate the Enterprise security market from being a consumer content filtering solution. It's key for him to hire the right C levels to execute the vision - end of the day David U is just a hacker not a leader. Place is turning into a grind factory. High expectations, high pressure from management - low compensation, low reward. Very unbalanced.

      2.0
      5 Jun 2015

      Sales Account Manager

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Typical Start-up Perks. Snacks, Lunch 3-days/week, Ping-Pong (Seemingly) Lots of Opportunity, and started-off as a very fun place to work.

      Cons

      Too many Office Politics for a Start-Up Very high-pressure sales environment with no help from Marketing Dept to initiate any warm sales-leads. Lots of cold-calling required to maybe enable Sales Goal Attainment. Cut-throat Sales Environment The CEO is a good guy, but has other people around him that have no idea what they're doing. Nobody in Sales seems to genuinely like the VP of Sales. Coming from one of the 'favorite' employees at OpenDNS: "I cannot believe what happens around me." I am certainly glad I am not working at OpenDNS any longer.

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