Sophos Reviews

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

Pros – Lots of good employees both technical and personable.
Free lunches end of month.
Interesting vision and good current products.
Did I mention the free lunches?

Cons – Too many management layers, you aren't Oracle.
Too many re-starts. Customers don't want to work with a new rep every 3-6 months.
No alignment between marketing and sales.
Too many ivory towers.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve compensation for top performers rather than running a boiler room mentality.

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 Sophos full-time for more than a year

Pros – This is a competitive field to be in, in a competitive job market.

The technology is good, and the company is making choices to stay relevant, and not get marginalized (like countless other companies have)

if the current plan works, this could be a really exciting time with new emerging technologies.

Monthly company-paid lunches.

Cons – The pay is not that great, and the benefits could be better. The biggest challenge is the growing list of products and the frequent re-orgs.

Advice to Senior Management – execute the current plan.

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

Current Employee – been working at Sophos full-time

Pros – Some great technologies, with some great people - both are shrinking fast though. Free monthly lunch.

Cons – Huge changes, many painful and confusing. Product focus changing dramatically from what we were leaders in to new markets we are still trying to figure out.

Advice to Senior Management – They've already lost industry leading talent, with more leaving every week. They're stepping away from industry leading technologies too. This new plan may work, but don't forget how we got here in the process, or the people who were part of it.

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 Sophos full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great pay, room to advance your career, great sales training

Cons – Still trying to figure out "focus"

Advice to Senior Management – Try to keep current sales structure in place for more than one year at a time.

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

Former Employee – worked at Sophos full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Good sales processes, and some really talented people remain, but dwindling.

Cons – You live from quarter to quarter not knowing if you who you will be working with. Retention is horrible. Product line is stagnant

Advice to Senior Management – Sell what you support and support what you sell.

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

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

Pros – Free beer on Friday after 4

Cons – Micro-manage to a point of ridiculousness
Very unprofessional environment

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 Sophos full-time

Pros – Some very good product lines
Upper management seems to be getting it (or at least the new CEO does)

Cons – Middle (to lower management) seems to be failing in the dark
Pay/Compensation for staff is weak
They don't fully understand some of their product lines
Too much micro-management
Very high emphasis on stats/numbers as opposed to quality

Advice to Senior Management – Make sure middle management knows what is going on, and it's shared with the rest of the staff. There are huge changes that are supposedly coming, but no road map (or even enforcement of it)

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

Former Employee – worked at Sophos full-time

Pros – Free coffee, fair work/life balance

Cons – Trying to integrate multiple products and trying to make each of them a profit-center is misguided. Hiring Kris was a huge mistake; cost-cutting is not what the company needs, what it really needs is is focus, focus and more focus. Get rid of products and solution sets that are loss leaders and drive on business that adds materially to the bottom line.

Advice to Senior Management – Figure out what you're good at and stick with 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 Sophos full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Supportive co-workers, work environment and staff
- Salary more in line with the complexity of work and work experience than most
- Challenging work, different positions, advancement available if you worked in the right departments

Cons – - Closed offices when profit projections weren't on target, although company was still turning a profit.
- Company serves it's investment partners rather than it's employees
- Low probability of advancement unless you live in the company's primary offices area (Boston, MA and in the UK)

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Dedicated employees, cooperative helpful attitude

Cons – Management does not respond quickly to changing markets, therefore the company lags the competition in many areas

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company