Websense Reviews

Pros

Enjoy working in the labs and stock options/promotions are great.

Cons

Some minor IT problems exist.

Pros

Company is based in San Diego - there are worse places to work - and there is demonstrated need in the market for content security.

Cons

Poor leadership and corporate culture has created a poisonous environment - one that stifles innovation and execution.

Advice to Senior Management

The market, the technology, the business, and the employees have all changed. Yet the company still isn't growing and is in disrepair. Sometimes the man looking in the mirror is the last one to figure it out.

Pros

not very busy and the process is good

Cons

most of managers are foolish and do not know enough technology in his/her area. It is impossible for them to correctly review the performance of their team members

Pros

great people you can meet

Cons

mess with no vision except money

Pros

Great health and dental and other benefits.
There are some fun people that work there.
Kickoff event it pretty epic as well.

Cons

They don't compensate fairly. High turnover due to lack of effort on company's part to keep employees happy/satisfied.

Raises are a joke.

Budget cuts while people in upper management make out like bandits is extremely frustrating.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to you good employees. Fight for a good raise for them. If you don't take care of them then they will just go somewhere else

Pros

Great products and technology vision. Sales conference is cool. Fun co-workers.

Cons

Used to be a good place to work for sales reps. Compensation has dropped while quotas sky rocket. Sales management seems to only care about metrics like how many dials you make in a day. More and more tasks continually assigned that take us away from selling.

Something is not working in the sales team right now and everyone knows it. Real shame. I enjoyed my time here but have one foot out the door.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on selling and not call reports. Review compensation plan.

Pros

Great and fun people to work with. it is a good place to learn technology if you are new to this technology.

Cons

Not quite sure, maybe salary is not as high as it supposed to be. but over all I don't see much problem.

Advice to Senior Management

no comment.

Pros

Salary, location, non-senior management employees. For the most part, the San Diego office is a great place to work. Unfortunately, the tactics (or lack thereof) from senior management trickle down and ultimately effects employee morale. Read the other reviews posted here. There's a clear theme.

Cons

Senior management, politics. C level executives and a number of directors make Websense a very difficult place to work.

Pros

EWverything is great. Friendly co-workers. Healthy work environment. benefits are awesome. A good place to learn tech ropes if this is your first job,

Cons

Professionalism and work management. Promotions to move above the corporate laddder may take longer than anticipated. Hard work to prove credibility.

Advice to Senior Management

Get to know your employers and career goals that they may have. Be open to see potential and growth development.

Pros

I had some great times working at Websense mainly due to the co-workers. The web security product is probably the best out there.

Cons

Weak leadership, lack of planning so the plans are constantly changing. Meanwhile their competitors are taking away their market share, customers and more over, being acquired by larger companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Exec Mgmt team has too much ego..unrealistic goals, lacking strong leadership. The employees have lost respect for the leadership team. They won't tell you because the job market is not that great in San Diego.