McAfee Reviews

Current Employee – been working at McAfee full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – 1. Dedicated security company if you are from information security this is the place to be in.
2. Excellent compensation package with benefits
3. Nice Healthcare plan.
4. Gym in the building makes it easier for you to exercise

Cons – 1. Very huge , if you are from startup you might get lost.
2. Lacks agility and slow to adopt new processes or technology as well as slow to adapt in the changing market.
3. Innovation is bought.

Advice to Senior Management – 1. Empower employees and make them feel how they are creating an impact in important initiatives.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McAfee full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good people; good atmosphere; good work/life balance

Cons – Less innovation; less excitement when compared to a startup or a public company

Advice to Senior Management – Need to improve morale - get people excited.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at McAfee full-time

Pros – Pay is excellent, treats strong players very well, good at getting rid of non-performers, low-drama

Cons – Product management lacks real leadership and shows little expertise in managing a portfolio and driving business results. Good company to work for and has matured quite a bit in the last 5 years.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at McAfee full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Interesting problems.
Good pay.
Great benefits.
Good people

Cons – Over-metricized, everything is a number - you, too!
Leadership is spotty, product management is abysmal.
Takes forever to get anything done.
Very top-down driven.
Periodic layoffs based on arbitrary numbers pushed down from Intel.

Advice to Senior Management – Just because something is made a web-app doesn't mean it's an improvement over the old process.
Let process improvement flow from the bottom up.
Make decisions more quickly, because it doesn't appear that taking much time is letting you make better ones.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McAfee full-time for more than a year

Pros – Get to choose project.
Work happens on all leading platforms and technologies.
Geeks are revered.

Cons – Salaries are average.
Company needs much higher levels of innovation than happening.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at McAfee full-time for less than a year

Pros – Global and well recognized brand
Free coffee/tea/drinks everyday and breakfast on Thursdays
Nice cafeteria, office space, and cubicles
Big budget to create with
CEO's are wonderful, personable, and easy to talk to

Cons – Management is very old school, the complete opposite of a flat organization
A lot of politics, red tape, and the company doesn't feel like it's innovating
You will have meetings about meetings, and projects and decisions happen very slowly
Difficult to work cross-functionally

Advice to Senior Management – Be more open to the ideas of those below you. Managers should be required to take leadership courses. Stay up to date with emerging trends. Need better information flow across departments.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McAfee full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – - Overall, nice and friendly people to work with
- Nice building
- Might be a good place for a new developer to get his feet wet, then move on
- Large, well known company, decent products
- Owned by Intel
- Dev teams collaborate well

Cons – - Large, well known company, that is slowly falling behind
- No concept of team building within the dev group. Managers do not interact with the employees much (only to criticize).
- A lot of meetings about meetings
- Below average pay
- Minimal training opportunities. Very stingy on the budgets for training, etc.
- Minimal, if any, recognition for a job well done. They WILL, however, let you know when you screw up.
- Extremely poor project planning
- Antiquated hardware and software for development (interestingly, the spreadsheet-reading managers always have the latest laptops, though)
- Dev managers have no decision making power. They must ask for approval for everything. They seem to just care about their own self with no regards to the people reporting to them. We are all just warm bodies.
- Dev managers do not know the meaning of "how to motivate employees" (nor do they care), nor the meaning of "accountability".

Advice to Senior Management – - You have too many dev managers that seemingly do nothing. In fact, too many managers period.
- You should also do less talking about what you're going to do to improve things, and actually do it!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at McAfee for more than a year

Pros – I really enjoyed the people and the commute! The building had a great cafeteria and they did some really fun things for their employees like "bring your kid to work" day.

Cons – Many people are in manager level or above postions who aren't effective leaders. There is a lot of politcs and backstabbing and corporate climbing.

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to lead in a way that inspires your employees rather than makes them fearful of losing their job every day.

Current Employee – been working at McAfee full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Stable company without any high risk,
Relaxed working environment
Learn new things from team and security area

Cons – salary and benefit is so-so, not attractive
not much opportunity for personal career growth

Advice to Senior Management – Frequently discuss with your employee and understand their concerns, and try to resolve any issues that employee raised.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at McAfee full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – McAfee has a really strong culture- there is a strong belief that what we make truly helps protect (this also promotes loyalty). Overall, most groups are very collaborative with an emphasis on 'teams'. Also positive is the lack of tolerence for politics. Good work/life balance and a flexible environment.

Cons – The 2 in a box management is not working- the Co-Presidents are not in alignment and do not like nor respect each other. This will have to change for the company to be successful.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company