Q&A With Alienvault Employees

Lots of them everywhere

He's a bit of a lightweight and self-promoter.

Always driven by too short deadlines.

After the honeymoon phase, it was Oh, no, gotta go again.

Tough with an hour commute each way, usually 10 or 12 hours working on top of that. No one goes to lunch and only a few eat lunch in the beautiful break room.

Very because managers don't communicate what they are thinking (probably not thinking much since they are always in meetings) and our group had maybe two or three meetings in eight months.

Awkward. Our team was mostly remote so there was usually almost no one from the team.

The pay.

Sink or swim technical onboarding - have to figure it all out yourself and there is little or no inter-group collaboration. Managers are not proactive on this.

Not great as growth is stalled by push to cloud with sub-par product, revenues down, reorgs, yet still hiring. Employees challenged by customer reception to new cloud product.

Some, but not a lot.

Center common areas, long rectangle with open areas on four corners. Mgr. offices and local common areas, conference rooms along the spine. Nice layout, everything is underutilized. Might lease some out later this year unless revenues pick up.

A great big office with no one in it. Huge kitchen with snacks and drinks.

Long hours, no one talks.

Nice people, weird non-team or team of individuals culture. If you like working from home, by yourself, you'll like it.

Spends all their time in meetings, doesn't really manage much less lead. Many have left.

Each one is usually half an hour. Hiring manager interview and VP is an hour or so.

Be a security geek already.

Long and tedious, they weren't very well prepared and were unsure about hiring.

None were difficult. Technical test was challenging unless you spend a lot of time in Linux and doing networking.

The process took a long time. Met with Mgr., every group employee, Director and VP. Tedious and time consuming.

Very few, but they did have a technical test. More discussion about approaches to different situations and challenges.

Relaxed, informal mostly. More a chat than a real interview. Get your questions prepared because I found that their job description was more aspirational than reality and they did not follow through on most of what they wanted to do.

Depends on the department and position, but slacks and a dress shirt should be fine for most, especially more technical. They are very informal.