nCircle Reviews

Pros

A terrific blend of California start-up and established company. Friendly, easy-to-work-with co-workers and management. Terrific work-life balance. Suitably challenging workplace.

Cons

Occasional difficulties with supporting a legacy product; cross-team communication generally excellent but company's dispersed locations sometimes makes that a challenge.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up! nCircle boasts some of the most responsive, congenial management I've ever worked with, and should serve as an example to the industry of how a company should be led.

Pros

Great work environment
Smart people
Great compensation and decent benefits
Good industry to be in
Work from home Fridays if you'd like

Cons

The primary product has too many defects/bugs according to engineers
Support is always pissed off and you can't really blame them
Created a full-time position only to terminate it within three months

Pros

Solid management team with longevity
Treats employees with respect and fairness
Financially solid, in growth mode
Non political environment
Good location - easy to use public transportation

Cons

Distributed workforce sometimes makes it hard to communicate
Smaller company so it has less room for growth opportunities within the company

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure you are always communicating to the entire team about what's going on in the company in all locations so everyone can feel involved.

Pros

Cool technology, great location close to everything

Cons

Want to earn minimal pay even though you have your CCIE, CISSP, and other top level certs? Go work for nCircle - or earn 40-60K more at most other companies in the Bay Area. Is this a reflection of how you'll be treated financially after hiring? You betcha!

Pros

nCircle has been through several cycles of management, and while it hasn't always been easy or painless, it has forced them to evaluate their direction more often than other companies and stay nimble. They seem to have found a balance and are executing well on the vision.

Some pros include:
Smart people
Motivated workplace
Great technology
Culture of innovation and high achievement
Good work/life balance
Market leader in vulnerability management and configuration compliance management

Cons

I think nCircle has some of the less enjoyable parts of any workplace: occasional politics, a person who annoys you and sometimes you don't get recognized for your accomplishments. However, having worked at a number of startups, the level of politics is very low, there's more people that are interesting and engaging than annoying, and you will get recognized for 90% of your achievements, so you have to consider it relative to other technology companies. On the whole, it's a great place to work.

Advice to Senior Management

Stay focused on innovation and growth. Keep the smart people and listen to them. Crush the competition. Don't ever let politics and petty infighting linger.

Pros

Good, smart people. Company is growing. Nice location in downtown San Francisco. Benefits are reasonable. Pay is good. Company good about letting you have time off.

Cons

Products are no longer competitive and have quality problems. Competitors are moving faster. Company is growing, but so slowly that it seems like it's being left behind.

Advice to Senior Management

Make the hard decisions and stick to them. Get rid of underperformers faster. Be more creative in thinking about your overall strategy. Maybe be a little more encouraging.

Pros

Liberal work from home policy; laissez faire management; interesting and mostly talented people; convenient and pleasant offices; good sales team

Cons

Boring place for engineering talent - Maintenance mode of products, no innovation, complete lack of career growth; talent leaves rather than stick around in a frustrating holding pattern. Lack of communication between divisions; no leadership

Advice to Senior Management

Show up for work; Lead the company; Promote internally to motivate people; Loose some of the bloat in upper management

Pros

Provides an excellent workng culture and enviroment .

Cons

Their are no negatative issues I can think of.

Advice to Senior Management

No incentives for motivation.

Pros

If you're interested in information security development, you can often find yourself surrounded by aggressive, ego-centric teenagers who are really just chasing personal glory. nCircle offers an environment of really smart, generally humble, technically savvy adults who want to work hard, share their knowledge, and participate in a successful business.

Cons

The only downside is that sometimes things don't happen fast enough. It seems like nCircle senior management takes a conservative approach to running a business. While that's probably better overall, it can be frustrating.

Advice to Senior Management

Work harder to unite the pools of talent across the company.

Pros

Good work-life balance, nice office, flexible work arrangements. Lots of space in the office, because they cant seem to hold on to people.

Cons

No cutting-edge or interesting research. Work is very boring. Smart people leave quickly. Too many untalented managers, not enough talented engineers.

Advice to Senior Management

Executive is obsessed with making money, which is not a bad idea, but they are more interested in making money than in making good products.