Pros

Websense provides an excellent benefits program, and in some departments, there can be high pay, but the amount of work demanded requires huge amounts of unpaid overtime.

Cons

Unrealistic management expectations regarding what is possible for existing staff to design and develop in a reasonable timeframe. The quest is to be the best - leader in the Gartner's Magic Quadrant and favorable market research reports from Forrester Research - this is great but Websense morphed from a 1 product company to hardware, software, web, data and email without sufficiently building out support infrastructures (documentation, training, technical support) Websense is not employee burn-out central. A popular saying in the halls of corporate HQ is, "Websense is a wonderful place to be from..."

Advice to Senior Management

A sprint, by definition is not a marathon, but is supposed to be a burst of high energy and output followed by some sort of slowed pace,