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WhiteHat Security reviews

3.4

60% would recommend to a friend

(213 total reviews)

Craig Hinkley

78% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

WhiteHat Security has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 213 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WhiteHat Security 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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213 reviews
1.0
Jul 9, 2015

Bad ideas, no respect and clueless leadership.

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Pros

If you want to advance your career by taking shortcuts which will harm the short-term and long-term success of the company WhiteHat Security is for you. If you want to avoid critical thinking WhiteHat Security is for you. If you want your experience and expertise to be routinely ignored when it doesn't match your executives' fabricated notions of reality WhiteHat Security is for you.

Cons

Product management and engineering executive management are so bad at vision, prioritization, and expectation setting that the burden of executing to plans which everyone knows are impossible falls to you, the lowly individual contributor. You will be in an endless death march, pushed through manipulation and passive-aggressive corporate politics to ship solutions you know are bad. You've said they're bad and nobody cares. You said they'll increase the cost of doing business going forward and that is ignored in favor of disingenuously checking off a deliverable on the roadmap. Next quarter when it's even more difficult for you to deliver due to the cumulative bad decisions piling up everywhere in this organization you'll be penalized for doing a poor job. All because of a poor attempt at quantifiable metrics administered by people have no idea how to effectively measure -combined- with a toxic blame-filled culture of each department wrangling to throw the other under the bus at the end of each quarter. All this when in reality the company is doomed to this failure spiral. This is how we've always done it.

1.0
Jun 22, 2018

Here is the Truth

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Pros

- I want to believe they are attempting to make positive change. It isn't hard steering a giant ship away from an oncoming iceberg. - There are still some genuine folks. - CEO has good intentions

Cons

- There are a lot of sumo/tibco folks - There really is an 'inner circle' as mentioned in previous comments - Data hygiene is poor - I was forced out. I didn't want to leave, but was strongly implied to go - Growth is in single digits YoY - Individuals have fainting in front of others due to stress lead by above - You can't trust anyone. They will act kind to your face, but trust me many have been let go as their are a lot of 'spies' in every team. Here is the thing, for those who are not happy here. I highly recommend that you move on. The grass is truly greener for those of us who are not part of 'the circle'. My base at my new gig is more than what my base & bonus was at whitehat. I am now treated better, and my confidence is back. I've confirmed this with others who have moved on too - there is this moment of positive emotions that rush out realizing that it was never you, but them. Whitehat has it's way in making you feel like you are a low performer and really cut you deep in poking at the way you dress and the times you are in the office. They are just old-school like that. Those who say they manage based on fear is true, but only true for those they want to push out. This is because they are going through some growth issues and they are trying to turn things around. So naturally, they will stick to the people they trust and push out the loyal. This is a company that has been around the block for some time so yes, change does need to happen. We may not agree with their methods, but at least they are doing something about it. So, if you are not happy, then just move on. Trust me it will make you happier in the long run. You are worth something, and you do have a voice. One guy from the TRC had his salary doubled recently at his new gig and he was with WhiteHat for 5+ years.

1.0
Feb 6, 2018

Culture of Cluelessness

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Pros

3+ years ago this was a great company. We innovated and actually cared about online security, as well as our customers. But a time-machine is the ONLY thing that would take this company to the success it once had. I was paid VERY well when I was hired, and my salary was the only thing that kept me around for as long as I lasted...by 2017 this was a completely different company to the one I joined.

Cons

Management is a joke; back-flips on stage you learned as a male cheerleader back in your glory days are NO substitute for competence or experience. The management has a toxic bullying style which is why I finally left. Were it not for all these recent fake reviews, I would have just been happy with my severance.

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