Imperva Employee Reviews about "new ceo"

Pros

Talented, hardworking and smart individual contributors. Solid solutions. Sales team trying to do right by customers.

Cons

Lacks strategy with a new C-level leadership team that is in way of their heads. Concerned more with hiring buddies than the best talent. New CEO is out for herself, trusts no one and micromanages. New CRO full of smoke and mirrors. Inexperienced leadership at top is impacting middle management and front line workers.

Pros

Market leading tech WAF becoming more commoditized Database is still green field with upside and very few competitors Passionate people Paying market or above to new hires to compensate for above average attrition rate Efforts underway to address problem areas for over a year since new CEO joined

Cons

CEO Chris Hylen is widely viewed as responsible for the high attrition rate Unpredictible mood, behavior swings, and direction to staff Exec Staff behave like they never know when or why the next swing will occur Tech innovation has slowed to a crawl Customer and employee retention have become big challenges Finance and G&A continue to slow Sales execution with processes not seen at much larger public companies Customer Support used to be a differentiator, not so today "Imperva Credo" corporate values are a step in the right direction if demonstrated from the top down - which unfortunately employees generally agree is not happening yet Run like an MBA project (work groups, streams, teams, exec offsites to Normandy to walk the battle fields...) with very little interest or understanding of what will actually delight customers

Pros

Imperva makes a great product.

Cons

2 layoffs and several managers in a short period of time says a lot about a company and it's commitment to retention. Management has had almost a 100% turnover in less than an year. New CEO is arrogant and does not mingle with the "little people". Unless you are in the "inner circle" you don't exist. He hires like minded people who are more worried about being the "Cool Kid on the Cool Team" than actually doing anything meaningful. Upper management are rude and often throw temper tantrums when things are not going as expected. Employees are not treated with respect, but rather punching bags for managers. There is a lot of inner fighting amongst teams and goes ignored by management. Makes working together a chore and does not allow for productive or effective results. Imperva was once a great company to work for, but those days are long gone and as long as the current management is in place you will see a revolving door... unless they continue to hire the minions with the "yes man" mentality.

Pros

Great space, good product. Fair compensation and work-life balance in my role (not engineering). Those coming into Imperva now will be fine so long as they are brought in by or through the extended network of new CEO. The stock price will continue to rise for the next couple quarters. Some of the issues resulting from poor IT leadership, finance and legal are likely to be cleared up by new management.

Cons

Most concerning, the CEO and new executive staff lack integrity. To say Anthony Bettencourt is disingenuous is being generous. My advice, don't listen to what they say, their ACTIONS speak louder than their words. Sales employees are poorly compensated (I am not in sales), HR is a mess-poor decisions, short sighted, lack experience. IT, legal and others make doing business difficult.

Pros

Strong engineering and historical brand

Cons

Management changes are terrible for the company's future. Like any company, Imperva has had its ups and downs. But the new management is unlike any management I (or you) have seen before. The new CEO has no security industry experience, has never been a CEO of a publicly traded company before, and has never ran a global firm. It did not take very long for Imperva's top sales (and other talented individuals at HQ) to see that there is a mismatch. For us in sales, we lost confidence when we realized there's not much he can do for us. Too many good eggs to count in this recent wave of departures.

Pros

Good products but when put to the test performance & scalability become issues. Numerous accounts have performance and upgrade issues. Support is good but as with any company it relies too much on email.

Cons

Slave to the machine. Middle management believes company first regardless of hour and/or day. Being an Israel company you are dealing with R&D and others that are 10 hours ahead of you so you're often taxed with early morning calls and late evenings. The work environment also dictates an on-call mentality regardless of the issue at hand. Shlomo has brought in a new CEO to replace him and you can see the writing on the wall. The new CEO is bringing in his own team and the long tenured senior mgmt folks are either being shown the door or are looking for the exit signs.

Pros

Decent products and at least some nice people remain.

Cons

Little respect for employees and performance. Recent large layoffs had no substance behind them with many let go simply because of re-org recommendations from consultants brought in by the new CEO. Many talented leaders and employees let go with every excuse to walk them out the door.

Pros

Was a tight family type place..we all would hang out. Past year so much change and no focus on workers

Cons

no one cares..exec's all hire family and own friends. Of course everyone gives great reviews...they all are new! CEO came in cleaned house..totally changed the vibe.

Pros

Nothing positive here at all.

Cons

High turn over, many in management are first time people managers with no leadership experience or talent. Not partner/channel friendly, most sales business is direct. Products are old, not needed by most companies and very difficult to sell. New CEO is very out of touch and made an already not so great company worse. Parts of the company are being aquired by various investment firms and pointless consultsnts were brought in to help make the company better, it did not work. HR is clueless and useless and live in their own bubble. After 4 years and 3 different positions at Imperva I have moved on.