Great company strangled by bad management - Anonymous employee Malwarebytes Employee Review

1.0
Oct 30, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Back in the day it had some of the sharpest, most creative, empathetic people in the industry. A lot of the consumer product on both mac and win was built by a very small number of people who truly cared about being the best out there. They're gone now, pushed out by senior leadership with limited technical skills and smaller vision.

Cons

woof, where to start? Marcin has negligible business acumen and a habit of trusting the wrong people based on social connection rather than a proven track record of achievement. Yes men were gradually brought in over the years and as the quality of the enterprise product declined, it became difficult to attract senior leaders with any sort of meaningful experience or technical skills. That vacuum in strategic leadership trickled downwards to where middle managers were forced to fend for themselves and guess at what might please the VPs in any given quarter, and what the next "strategy pivot" would be. Frequently, the next new thing would be a goal previously tried and failed years ago. If you don't get on one of the few teams where the lead is liked by the VP, good luck. Most of the female talent left already, usually for very good reason.

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Thank you for your review, it has been passed further. We would really like to hear more and see what we can do to improve. In case if you are up for a confidential chat with me or another member of the People team, please contact directly employerbrand@malwarebytes.com Kind regards, Elvi

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