SafeNet Reviews

Pros

Had a decent bonus structure

Cons

Not a lot of advancement potential

Pros

Good pay and benefits. Great office culture, coworkers are friendly and are approachable. There are random team lunches and free bagel Friday. The company has annual sales kickoffs which are located at different parts of the world. The expenses are paid for by the company such as flight, and hotel. Definitely feel the stability of the company, SafeNet is a recognized leader of Software Licensing, revenue is constantly being attained at a high rate. Café located in downstairs lobby.

Cons

Really was thrown to the fishes in terms of learning the product. Training wasn’t all that great as I had to watch webinars as a primary source of product knowledge information. My boss who was the leader of Sales on the West Coast took a sabbatical randomly at the end of December. This in turn decreased the visibility of my performance of work to the new manager which was located at HQ in Maryland. This led to my position being eliminated on the West Coast. The office was kind of disorganized as the West Coast office only had no leadership, with 3 new sales people.

Pros

Will hire capable people with promise rather than require all the "ayes dotted and tees crossed." Room to develop career skills. Technically interesting work. Product line needed in today's marketplace. Great work from home, remote worker policies. Competent people don't need to spend more than forty per week to get the job done.

Cons

Structure way too distributed for a company of this size: teleconferences with participants in Tel-Aviv, Noida, Redwood City, Ottawa, Belcamp, and Camberly at the working staff level are common. Way too many products with many products behind the curve on features and performance. Management is not held accountable at any level. Serious disconnects between executive silos, for example sales and marketing.

Pros

SafeNet manages to hire the best of the best. Professional courtesy and sound judgement accompany your daily business interactions. A great group of people focused on making a noteable difference in the world we live in today. We make a direct and very profound contribution to our nations homeland security and I for one, am very proud to be part of this orgaization.

Cons

It would be nice if there were an onsite cafeteria, there are limited options for grabbing lunch anywhere nearby, without having to travel to the mall. But many of the employees actually travel to Torrance to take advantage of the labs down there, so it's probably not economical for them to consider that option at this point in time.

Pros

- People are generally pretty nice to work with - Knowledge base is pretty good given the somewhat niche products that are produced here - Direct managers seems genuinely interested in well-being of their employees

Cons

- Big company, lots of resistance to change (with regard to new technologies) - Salaries seem to be on the low side for the tech industry - Senior management seems to be very disconnected from the rest of the employees, probably due to all the mergers & acquisitions that are happening all the time - They just got bought by another big company, it is possible there are some big changes changes coming

Pros

Working on something totally new (Peer to Peer networking). Exposure to both c++/ Microsoft .NET programming.

Cons

Working in big company was not exposed to financial strength of this particular department I worked for. Working for my previous company the CEO would periodically tell us the financial position of the company (it was a startup company).

Pros

When I worked there, it was still operating as a smaller company, but they were doing a number of acquisitions. They might very well be a larger company now, but back then it was a good working environment.

Cons

They might be growing a bit too much. Also, with all of the acquisitions, there have been a few rounds of layoffs, which is something to consider if you are looking for employment.

Pros

Decent benefits, alright pay, great work-life balance, ability for regular promotions, great holiday parties. The community feeling at SafeNet was fantastic.

Cons

There was very little budget for training the people who seemed to need it most, some of the leadership was questionable.

Pros

Lots of certificate and 2-factor authentication experience. Fairly relaxed management. Friendly team. Great culture. Parties on holidays and great Halloween fun. Lots of room to move to new positions within departments.

Cons

Applications team is treated with higher priority/respect that Infrastructure (Help desk, Networking, Systems Administration). Infrastructure team is understaffed while applications continues to grow and flourish. Leadership tends to put priorities in the wrong place. Company is extremely top-heavy. Took away option for 100% health care coverage in 2014.

Pros

The (Belcamp) IT group is a great group of people. I will do what ever I can to convince/help them to leave!!!

Cons

They have horrible security practices. Source code is scattered everywhere, they do not care. There are hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities and management refuses to accept the fact that the company is at grave right of losing all intellectual property, because of this. But, since my boss stated that protecting intellectual property is not a priority, so I guess I'm the crazy one. What?