Kaspersky reviews

4.0

69% would recommend to a friend

(771 total reviews)
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Eugene Kaspersky

86% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Kaspersky has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 771 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kaspersky employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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771 reviews
1.0
Jun 27, 2017
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Pros

Some of the co-workers are nice, people higher up and HR, not so much, too arrogant.

Cons

Top heavy management, too many people with no talent calling the shots, not enough people actually "doing" anything. For a company that is supposed to be dealing with such high tech issues as cyber security, they have a very primitive technical setup, actually embarrassing. Russian culture compared to American culture is strange to say the least, it simply doesn't float here. Very much a kill or be killed mentality is required to survive, I have seen people thrown under the bus on many occasions for nothing, fear breeds fear. Very low pay compared to other companies in the same space.

1.0
Jun 17, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

1. Healthcare. 2. Free tea and coffee but that's pretty much par for the course at most companies. 3. An onsite gym if you can get a moment to actually use it is a different story.

Cons

1. If you wish to make about 20-25% LESS than at other companies for the same role then this could be the place for you! 2. Work/Life balance is a joke, you'll find yourself working at nights and weekends because of awful management. 3. You have to be in the clique to advance yourself in any way. 4. Awful broken English from Russian colleagues - sometimes making simple jobs seem like a nightmare. 5. Incompetent people seem to "fail upwards" whilst dedicated and skilled employees fall by the wayside - again the "clique" effect. 6. Enjoy being underpaid whilst Eugene Kaspersky becomes a newly minted billionaire, globetrotting like a poor mans Richard Branson. 7. It's a Russian company that is basically in the news every other week for the wrong reasons, just recently - even the department of homeland security has issued a guidance to "avoid the vendor" 8. Progress is as slow as a glacier, example - company switched from Drupal CMS to Tridion, a process that took a mere 4 years. 9. Extremely long and dull days, micromanaged to death on everything, creative thinking is not applauded. 10. Revolving doors employment, I have seen good employees come and go whilst the driftwood seems to linger on.

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Kaspersky Response
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First of all, thank you for caring so much about this company to bring this to the forefront. It must be tough for you to experience all of it and do your daily job with proper efficiency. Please, find time to contact me directly. I promise to find a way to address almost all issues you experience except for 4 and 6. Regarding 4: Our company is a transnational one, people of more than 37 nationalities work here, and English is a not native language for most of them, including your Russian peers. I can offer you company sponsored language learning if you want to. You can learn Russian amongst other languages to make communication with your Russian peers easier. Regarding 6: we have no influence over Eugene's spendings, fortune, and lifestyle. But he regularly reads Glassdoor reviews, and I'm sure will view yours. Alena Reva
2.0
Oct 9, 2014
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Pros

The Kaspersky Technologies, Solutions, Services and Products are leading edge. There are some really talented people with great skill sets and a creative focus. WE have an excellent sales management team in the US. Everyone that has been at Kaspersky for more than a couple of years has said it was a great company to work for in the past.

Cons

So many reorgs have lead to workforce productivity challenges, spreading job fear, people afraid to tell the truth about product problems, role conflicts, and outright dysfunctional workforce interactions and business processes... there is micro-management coming with hidden agendas inherently moving forward from certain executive management individuals based in Moscow. The US team is mostly excellent and quite a few of the Russian based team are excellent too... However ---- There is an air of us vs them instead of true business collaboration as more and more US based workers and managers are displaced by Russian citizens moved to the US to replace them or positions in the US are moved to Moscow... many workforce actions are now micro-managed remotely. This should not be a problem if the newer or remote managers wanted to instill collaboration, but instead --- to often now --- it is about having yes men around them with tactics of intimidation, outright misrepresentation of workforce actions and misguided dysfunctional blaming of others. ... power moves for individuals instead of teams being focused on collaboration and team efforts to grow the business. Politics of the individual and how he looks is more important vs how the company really performs. There are shadow organizations that mimc each other in various US and European regions so that some work is duplicated or is undermined in actions performed between competitive group ... There is evidence of misguided directives to US executives affecting our sales efforts and middle manager performance through bullying and toxic boss tactics. It is not a majority that is the problem, but it is a good enough of mismanagement at high places going on globally that is upsetting the Apple cart and not optimizing business actions.

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