Verisign Reviews

Pros

good company policy, facilities and flexible timings to work.
less pressure.Agile methodologies.Good technologies to work.
Company bonuses and shares are good

Cons

not very much work to do.
No onsite opportunity.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide onsite opportunity.
Provide cab facilities.
Provide good catering.provide good HR policies.
Provide good facilites . provide cab facilites. fine

Pros

The compensation and benefits are very good.

Cons

The company is going through a transitional phase after selling the Authentication business to Symantec. They have decided to move all remaining jobs to Dulles, Virginia, regardless of whether they can find qualified people to fill them. Management also plans to support the remaining company with a fraction of the support staff, so many remaining people will be wearing multiple hats and have very broad responsibilities. There is also an issue with people being promoted to positions they are not qualified for, simply because they are in the right location.

Advice to Senior Management

Your actions this year have seriously damaged employee faith in upper management. If you are planning for the company to go forward, and not just getting positioned to sell the remaining parts, you have serious work to do gain any employee trust back.

Pros

open work culture and technically competent organization

Cons

no long term vision for the company post security vertical divesture to symantec

Advice to Senior Management

mgmt know what to do I guess

Pros

Reasonable employer, fair, pays at or above market level.

Cons

Lot of changes within top management and strategy

Advice to Senior Management

addaa addda addaaaaaaa

Pros

Company has a unique niche so is not going out of business soon
Great benefits you expect from a valley company although this location is in DC
New CEO is smart, respectful, and knows the business
Rumored to be moving Mtn View HQ to Reston which is nice place to live with great schools

Cons

Unclear strategy. They have sold most everything off they've bought in the pastr several years but there is no obvious strategy for them to deploy the cash they're sitting on

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out what you want to be when you grow up

Pros

Talented colleagues; good work life balance; good compensation and benefits; excellent bonuses and stock purchase, things are always slightly crazy

Cons

Mid-Management can be out of touch with their employees/teams; the grape-vine is normally light years ahead of official communications; often tight deadlines and unrealistic expectations

Advice to Senior Management

Do more management training; involve EEs more in what is going on; be more honest with what is really happening

Pros

Great team atmosphere, good benefits package.

Cons

There were no major downsides to working for VeriSign

Advice to Senior Management

Find out what kind of company you want to be.

Pros

It's a very execution oriented environment so if you are self-motivated and can get things done with little to no oversight, you will do very well. If you are someone who needs clear structure and guidance, it might not be the place for you.
Most of the people are outstanding - very smart and driven.
If you are willing to work hard and not take no for an answer, you can create a ton of opportunity for yourself

Cons

Most departments are not focused on process or best practice, its an environment where you get things done by figuring it out on your own, often without any guidance from management.
The company grew so quickly that the infrastructure is not well designed in terms of process or procedures.
There is often very little focus on work/life balance. People regularly work really long hours and it's more of an unspoken expectation than a one-off situation.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on developing a long term strategy that you can stick to, and then figure out how to best communicate that to the entire organization in a way that everyone understands and can get engaged with. More transparency into the reasons for decisions and employee input into structuring changes would be ideal.

Pros

Great work / life balance.
Overall package is quite good - on both salary and benefits
Felt that it was very meritocratic - the more you did, the more they entrusted with you.

Cons

Lack of investment in new products
More concerned about margins than advancing the company / products
With large number of divestitures, employees really got lost in the process, and focus was lost.

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out what you want to do with the company. Is it a growth company, or a utility? Understand that 'people first' isn't always about compensation.

Pros

* Excellent technology exposure
* Great people; strong engineering discipline
* Strong management/leadership
* Supportive delegation-oriented management
* Excellent compensation
* Reasonable work-life balance

Cons

* The occasional overly aggressive sales commitment
* Unclear engineering career growth path
* Some challenges around managing the cross-functional organization effectively

Advice to Senior Management

* Too much divestiture? Shedding some of Stratton's half-baked content plays made sense but isn't shedding security services / identity protection service going too far?