McAfee Reviews

Pros

Good place to work overall

Cons

Could utilize more scope for development

Pros

Quarterly and yearly bonuses (in lieu of yearly raises).

Cons

McAfee is not the company it once was. McAfee's corporate culture under CEO Chris Young in 2017 was driven by principle and dedicated to employee well-being. Those days are gone. McAfee today is in chaos. Its sole focus is to be a profit vehicle for large investment groups. In 2021, the enterprise business was sold for $2.08 billion and rebranded as Trellix. In 2022, Advent and Permira acquired McAfee for $14 billion. Endless cost-cutting measures have resulted in wave after wave of layoffs and offshorings to India. The company is continually preparing for the next cycle of IPO and privatization, resale and divestiture. McAfee's all-consuming focus on EBITDA has meant slashed budgets for product development and entire product teams being offshored to cheaper but less skilled contractors overseas. As a result, product quality has declined. Moreover, the continuous push for an annual 150% increase in profits has brough an aggressive spamming of customers and inflated advertising campaigns, sacrificing customer satisfaction for short-term gains. The work environment at McAfee is demoralizing and stressful, leading to the loss of countess talented professionals. Security and HR departments now actively target higher-cost US workers for termination. With departments already operating with a skeleton staff, each round of layoffs further strains IT’s ability to sustain even the most basic operations. Fear of job loss hangs over employees at all levels, from directors to individual contributors, fostering a culture of unquestioning compliance at the expense of independent thinking. The continuous cycle of firings and reorganizations has created an environment where new managers often have little understanding of what their teams do, making worse the sense of demoralization. Today, McAfee bears little resemblance to the pioneering and agile California software company that it once was. Most of its workforce is now based in India, while disconnected leaders in San Jose answer to various investment group’s board members whom they have never met. Long-time employees mourn the loss of the company they once knew. McAfee has lost its soul.

Pros

There is a very good work life balance

Cons

Poor salary, Mediocre leadership, bullies among the leaders

Pros

Good people and lots to learn if you want.

Cons

can't think of anything atm

Pros

Solid teams to work with

Cons

below average leadership with HR

Pros

They finally laid me off

Cons

Just working here was pretty much con all around

Pros

Unlimited PTO and decent insurance coverage.

Cons

Incompetent data science team. They just work on the tasks at hand without supporting the holistic view of the business. Non-agility of the data team impacts the business negatively. Though it's great to work with global teams, the leadership expects unsustainable work hours to get the work done when asked without keeping in mind the work-life balance. There is very little collaboration between product and marketing leading to conflicting user experience.

Pros

People were nice and warm

Cons

The willn’t give meef a raze

Pros

Great Benefits and employees are wonderful.

Cons

Need strong technical background in role.

Pros

The culture is extremely supportive and collaborative Benefits are great

Cons

Lots of legacy systems and processes that are just stuck in the past and holding the company back Raises are terrible, 3% is considered an amazingly high increase