SafeNet Reviews

Former Employee – worked at SafeNet full-time

Pros – Great people and career advancement opportunities

Cons – Company politics can be frustrating sometimes

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SafeNet full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice water-front property, free parking

Cons – 15 hour days during month end close. Weekend work during close needed. Close usually lasts 10 business days. The remaining days are 12 hours. No comp time given. Tons of kissing up to executives who love it and play favoritism based on the attention received. Good performance is not appreciated, only kissing up. Executives and managers call employees names to their faces and behind their backs. There is no team spirit. Everybody wants to quit. It is an ugly, humilating place to work. The execs suck the life out of wanting to do good in this place. Everything is always wrong.

Advice to Senior Management – The C-suite got cleaned out, which was a good thing. Please don't stop there. The finance execs should be fired.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SafeNet full-time

Pros – sometimes free lunch and beer

Cons – only talking about the finance and accounting side but saw similar issues else where. leadership team is leaderless. They scream, they call employees names, they play favorites, they offer nothing but criticism. This is the worse company in Baltimore. Everybody wanted out and HR did nothing to make the situation better. Complaints fell on deaf ears in HR. If you like working 12 hour days without an end in sight and can tolerate a culture that does not appreciate anything you do this is the rat hole for you.

Advice to Senior Management – Happy to see a new c-level team and hope they change the culture but unfortunately, other executives in finance and accounting needed to be fired, too.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – The people and work flexibility

Cons – lack of process and structure

Advice to Senior Management – Get organized and stick with one formula

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SafeNet full-time for more than a year

Pros – The pros are all from working at Ingrian. It was a great company.

Cons – Poor communication; lack of vision

Advice to Senior Management – Improve the professional communication and employee review/compensation process.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SafeNet

Pros – SafeNet manages to hire the best of the best. Professional courtesy and sound judgement accompany your daily business interactions. A great group of people focused on making a noteable difference in the world we live in today. We make a direct and very profound contribution to our nations homeland security and I for one, am very proud to be part of this orgaization.

Cons – It would be nice if there were an onsite cafeteria, there are limited options for grabbing lunch anywhere nearby, without having to travel to the mall. But many of the employees actually travel to Torrance to take advantage of the labs down there, so it's probably not economical for them to consider that option at this point in time.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SafeNet

Pros – Working on something totally new (Peer to Peer networking). Exposure to both c++/ Microsoft .NET programming.

Cons – Working in big company was not exposed to financial strength of this particular department I worked for. Working for my previous company the CEO would periodically tell us the financial position of the company (it was a startup company).

Advice to Senior Management – The leadership did retain the employees during difficult 2008 downturn. I found later the business group I joined was not generating enough revenue as per its potential.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Large company, scattered all over the world

Cons – This is a company that buys other companies, do not know what to do with them and destroys them

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 SafeNet full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexible timings, Good culture, Employee Friendly

Cons – Monotonous work, No new projects

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SafeNet full-time

Pros – Work and technologies are really good and challenging.
Cab facility.

Cons – People here don't know what professionalism is. The senior management treats employees like blue collared workers. Yelling at employees at the top of their voices, yes, in their cubicles is a very commonplace. It's a commonplace because everybody would have been insulted like this in public at least once. Even peers raise their voices when talking to their colleagues.

NCR lacks options in this domain. So, if people are working at this place, it's surely due to lack of options, not for the love of the job.

Advice to Senior Management – Certainly, none of the managers and many of the employees (of the nature mentioned above) are employable in any mildly professional company.

First make the company professional.
Treat employees as assets, not as a dispensable commodity.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend