Signal Sciences Engineering Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
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The work is satisfying customer's goals but not personal growth
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
Incredibly intelligent people. In awe of all the hard work they have dedicated to this awesome product and company.
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They're Not Insane. This is surprisingly rare in this industry, and highly valued!
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they seem to be transparent
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Our leadership team refers to the matter experts on our team and trusts their evaluations and recommendations. There's no ego play here.
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Intimate knowledge of the problem space. The team has been able to execute on a vision which smaller companies cannot compete with and bigger competitors are anxious about.
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
They need to have a vision beyond "sell more"
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They avoid people management and lack industry understanding and vision
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
The salaries vary wildly at the company
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The company sometimes spontaneously gives us a week off with pay. Last year, for example, we got the week if the 4th of July and the week of Christmas off.
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doing good work for fair pay
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The compensation is very family friendly.
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Benefits and salary and competitive.
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Having a 401k match program. Signal Sciences offers fully paid healthcare for employees and their families. That's amazing and all but for someone who is single, I'd benefit more from matching.
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Other companies pay 20-30% better
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Market rates for security professionals increase disproportionately compared to other positions. The Signal Sciences culture and team is the primary reason for joining and staying.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Small team where everyone has their voices heard. Assuming you speak up...
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Whip-smart, friendly, and diligent. Easy and fun tho work with.
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everyone is an expert in their field
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Our team consists of deeply interesting and very experienced people. We are able to clearly communicate what problem we are trying to solve and work collaboratively to reach a shared goal.
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They are committed to finding the best solution for a given problem.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
There is a lot of wasted time with no clear action items. The tasks are often too easy and the lack of roadmap leaves people waiting around or doing tasks intentionally more slowly than they should
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
There's great interaction amongst different departments. People are great and incredibly intelligent!
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It's a very relaxed welcoming environment
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Happy, friendly people who are glad to be there, and who are effective at their jobs.
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everyone is moving in the same direction
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Our passion for empathy in all that we do. From customer interactions to cross team collaboration we help each other to remain cognizant of different view points and work hard to communicate efficiently.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
It's too quiet and with so many remote employees it's hard to have a sense of culture
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What did you like most about the interview process?
Interview process was as mature as expected at that level of growth
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It was very informal and more of a conversation.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
I don't think the bar was sufficiently set during the interview
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It needs to be more rigorous. The easy and textbook interview questions explain the mediocre engineering
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What makes you most happy at work?
My coworkers make work exciting!
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I love it when I'm able to contribute something valuable -- my coworkers are always quick to comment on it.
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autonomy and working on interesting projects
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I'm given the freedom to find my projects and execute upon them. My leadership has distilled trust in all of us to do what we love, and love what we do.
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The problem space Signal Sciences is working to address has been lacking a visionary product for a decade or more. It's exciting to be helping customers and altering their expectations of what a security product should be.
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
The company isn't innovating, which is a shame
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The work isn't challenging enough
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What do you like best about your company?
Amazing product, relatively high compensation comparatively
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Middle management is atrocious across departments. Political feuding and snark inhibit more and more velocity as the layers of "leadership" are introduced.
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