Webroot Software – “I'm looking for the exit and I'm not the only one.”

Pros

Salaries are good. Work/Life balance is good. Vacation time pretty good after two years with the company. Lower level managers are fairly laid back.

Cons

Since moving from Boulder things have really changed. No game room, no beer Fridays, no dogs - just another corporation at this point, nothing special at all. if you prefer to work at a job with a small company/startup feel where everyone pitches in when needed, then Webroot definitely isn't the place for you anymore.

Executive team appear to not know what is going on at lower levels. This is not surprising. They couldn't build their own next generation product - they had to get it through an acquisition. Executive and senior management simply lacked the vision and organizational talent to do it themselves, in spite of the fact that they had substantial talent working for them both in Colorado as well as California.

Acquisition has also been handled badly. Right hand does not know what left hand is doing, and this is apparently policy. Extreeme compartmentalization in terms of information sharing - at last all hands meeting CEO basically said it was never going to happen. It's so bad the senior guy in charge of QA can't even get enough information about their latest product to properly test it. Get comfortable in your rut, because you won't be moving out of it.

Lots of reorganization on US side. Lots of layoffs and those that aren't being laid off are leaving in droves - in the past two months they have laid off 8 development staff. They have said they will be reorganizing for the rest of the year, so 5 more have quit just in the last two weeks to avoid a similar fate. Zero job security on the engineering/technology side, even less morale.

Advice to Senior Management

If I thought they would listen I'd tell them in person. As it is, they are pretty much tone deaf. I'm actively looking for another job right now (along with virtually everyone else on the U.S. engineering/technology side), so what they do makes little difference to me at this point.