Sacrificing Ethics in the Name of a Higher Stock Price - Anonymous employee Zscaler Employee Review

You’ll be working less than the industry average regardless of role. Get an internal promotion? Now you’ll make 2/3 of what an outside hire makes in the same position. Benefits are mediocre compared to other tech companies in the same position. Except for Stock. Which, hopefully, you can stick out 4 years to see most of without needing to take a sabattical from the lack of work life balance here draining your mental health. There was a huge hiring front of leadership from AppDynamics following the appointment of the current CRO. This has created a huge culture issue within the company and the exec team has done nothing to address it. Work/Life Balance is a pipe dream peddled by the executive team. Do you have a salary? Expect to work 65 hours a week minimum, even in an individual contributor role. Hiring sales people like crazy, without scaling Sales support teams (marketing, Ops, channel, CSM). Support is minimal because everyone else is spread so thin. Literal product support sits overseas and garners frequent complaints from customers. A surprising amount of dollars seem to go toward the sales enablement team( look at the most recent SKO for reference) but I don’t know a single person who really understands how any of our sales tools work. The stock price is God. Every single thing revolves around it, at the expense of culture, common sense, and decision making. Things change constantly with seemingly no explanation. Decisions and tool purchases feel RUSHED simply to appear cutting edge to the market. And for the love of God, before giving any more money to people.ai , someone in this company figure out how to make their tool work in the ZS ecosystem if it’s going to be the Bible for tracking sales activities.