Pros

Pay seemed decent
Benefits seemed average
A lot of good employees to work with

Cons

No direction or strategy
Constant change in decisions or importance of priority
Senior-level management is a joke
LIttle to no advancement opps unless you're already in Senior Management

Advice to Senior Management

Truly listen to the subjective feedback you receive from the employee surveys

Pros

It a a very cool working environment in the year 2004 when I worked last there. It was a open culture and respect for all people

Cons

Technical skill development was not given high priority. The Sr. management was not very closely involved with technical aspects of the project.

Advice to Senior Management

Not much of a optimization in place, can be optimized to save lots of $$. Up skilling the people and proper orientation could help in optimization

Pros

Perceived leader in the security space. Some very good and even great products. Innovation through acquisition, so high growth/energy and always change. Good experiences with product engineering, support and consulting.

Cons

Sales leadership is 100% coin operated. Zero interest in excuses, just sell, doesn't matter if there is a customer fit, just make the sale. Market strategy is convoluted and broken for many business units. Channel conflict all over the place. Sales Ops is painful (getting quotes approved, orders booked).

Advice to Senior Management

Build a sales compensation plan that actually drives teamwork and positive reinforcement. Stick with a comp plan for more than a year at a time, without drastically changing the rules. Try some organic innovation for a change, you can build sometimes - you don't ALWAYS have to buy your way into a new market.

Pros

Within several teams, there are great middle managers. Employees get fair market compensation, along with quarterly bonuses when the company makes their quarterly numbers and when individual employees make their individual goals. There is management recognition for work-life balance.

Cons

Most senior leadership at top came from Sales, and not tech or engineering, which is not bad, if you make the numbers consistently and want to just satisfy Wall Street and investors. But this model is not sustainable for employee retention or morale. Morale has definitely improved since DeWalt came on board, but several personal and financial scandals have definitely hurt the company. Definitely a Sales driven company that recognizes and rewards sales staff more than any other functional teams.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer more balanced recognition and rewards for ALL functional teams. Improve operational efficiencies of teams so they work smarter, not harder.

Pros

medical insurance, good employees, strong solution set

Cons

poor processes and systems, underpaid staff and overpaid senior managemenrt

Advice to Senior Management

CEO is fantastic, but many of the management team are not strong leaders and encourage bad behaviour amongst senior management.

Pros

The work at McAfee was interesting, and I was able to learn a lot in my time there. Compensation as reasonable.

Cons

All the politics and infighting burned me out of corporate culture. With any luck it is the last big company I will work for.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more open about what is going on in the company. Do whatever it takes to reduce all the politics

Pros

we will get to know the latest technologies involved in writing the security related software. work will always keeps u on toes.

Cons

takes lot of time to understand the product
lot of documentation to go through before even starting the work

Advice to Senior Management

way to go!

Pros

McAfee is good to its best employees and does its best to help them blossom. It provides job stability in a difficult environment. Sometimes it acts as a start-up, while other times it behaves as a large corporation, usually to good effect. You'll find pockets of innovation and interesting thinking throughout the organization.

Cons

McAfee tends to jump from deal to deal, so focus suffers. Sales appears unfamiliar with the word "no". McAfee runs very lean, and while there are brilliant and capable people on many teams, it is often slow to remove dead weight, so the stars do a lot of heavy lifting. In some divisions, politics can be rife. Acquisitions have almost completely replaced internal innovation.

Advice to Senior Management

- Rewarding a salesperson because he or she signed a deal is fine. But what about the people who overcame the roadblocks on behalf of the salesperson? What about the people who toiled behind the scenes to get the product launched? Not to mention the people who spend months optimizing those deals. There's too little recognition and rewards outside of Sales.
 - The constant hiring freezes have taught middle managers that it's not worth dropping a mediocre employee, because the open headcount will likely be frozen before a solid replacement will be found. Hence, there's a sizable population of below average employees. These, in turn, sap the best and brightest of passion and energy. The outcome is predictable, if unnecessary.

Pros

You have Flexible Working Hours - can come and go as you wish as long as work gets done. Option of working from home is also available.

Cons

For non IT people, growth scope is very limited. Job mainly comprises of reporting in India. All the analysis work is done from the US.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire people based on the type of work you have. Dont hire MBA and hard core finance guys for work that can be done just as well by Graduates.

Pros

I like my job and the tasks that I perform on a day to day basis. Management is flexible with schedule. Benefits are great! Management challenges the employee with goals that are difficult to reach but attainable.

Cons

Opportunities for advancement are unkown. Not very much interaction between management and employees. More communication between management and employees would be good.

Advice to Senior Management

I would like to advance in my job and/or position, but a career path is not obvious. I would like to see more communication between management and employees to discuss career goals and advancement. (for those employees that are interested, some employees like there current job and don't want to move)