Shady management, no security. - Anonymous employee Futurex Employee Review

Be advised - Futurex is a poorly-managed company that is hiding beneath a thin mask of being a ‘startup’ company. To be sure, the product is solid and the engineering team is top-notch - I have no qualms about Futurex’s services offered, but the company itself is deeply flawed. You may notice some very polarizing views posted here on Glassdoor. Most of the positive reviews have been posted by the marketing team under the protection of anonymity and are posted directly after negative reviews in an attempt to drown them out. You’ll notice they include little ‘jabs’ that are actually compliments, “More console games in the break room please,” and the like. “I’m so excited we got Best Places to Work seven years in a row,” is not something an actual employee would take the initiative to go and write on Glassdoor, let alone more than one. Some of the reviews have been discounted as being from a disgruntled employee, but they all have a note of truth to them. Everything is pitched to you as an amazing privilege, as though you are signing on to this amazing ‘startup’ culture company with enough financial security to make real change. Don’t be fooled. You are not going to have massive roundtables with your coworkers, you are not going to have a schedule with relative freedom, you are not going to have a funky and unique work environment. You will have a cubicle, in a portable building, where no one talks to each other unless it’s lunch time, and if they socialize too much, they become paranoid. A coworker of mine started keeping track of her socializing and bathroom breaks because she was told she ‘walked around too much’. All of the reviews here that talk about the extremely competitive nature of Futurex are correct, but all of that talk about a challenging work environment just becomes a convenient hiding spot when an employee can’t “cut it”. Personalization, cooperation and collaboration are actively discouraged. Every second you aren’t working is wasted time. The turnover rate at Futurex is alarmingly high. Employees come and go regularly, and are fired for exceedingly minor reasons. Because the encryption work is sensitive, these firings happen quickly and quietly, but ex-employees are frequently trash-talked by corporate at meetings. It’s my understanding that some departments are better than others, but you are not safe, even if you’ve worked there for more than two years. Not everyone that works in upper-management at Futurex contributes to this level of toxic work environment, but in my opinion it isn’t worth the mental toll to work at this company. I trust them with my data, but not with my life.