The Truth Behind S2 Security - SQA Engineer S2 Security Employee Review

Interesting projects, great access to decision makers, good compensation, great people and atmosphere, your opinion and ideas are welcomed by management.

Far from home. Much traffic.

It is a small business with some very nice people. The engineering process is very free form with very little planning, specifications and management. If you come from a top heavy Agile managed environment, you may like that. This sector of product (physical security) has a low level expectation in terms of technological solutions, which means that new ideas can create a significant advantage in the market place - there is opportunity to change the landscape of security in some ways. That's always interesting.

Lots of people leaving. You'll see many jobs openings now. Engineers are leaving because the place is a circus. A single person is deciding the direction of all of engineering without consulting the engineering leads. Decisions are made on Friday night over scotch between 2 people...you see the picture. Small bonuses, no equity. The worst place I ever worked at, for sure. I hate to even make such a review. But if it can prevent someone else from making the same error I made of getting in there, working hard … only to get stone walled by non-technical issues, it will have been worth it.