Growth Opportunities - Analytics Engineer Guavus Employee Review

4.0
10 Jan 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Generally stabilizing as part of Thales; much opportunity for (personal/career) growth (on analytics team in CA at least?); great teams and friendly people (although still quite siloed per function and location); access to interesting projects and interesting data and interesting brains and interesting tools/resources; generally good compromise of freedom vs. oversight.

Cons

Lots of changes and movement, and a general lack of strong organizational consistency for years, at least until end 2018: from team structure, to (CA) office location, to acquisitions, to utilization of varied internal office software/platforms/tech, to active clients (beyond the top 5) + general sales plan, to product/project management style, to HR proactivity and knowledgeability, to reporting and review requirements, to etc. etc.

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5.0
6 Jun 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pioneered big data analytics for 5G, which would have a great potential in the next five years.

Cons

Change of the stakeholders brought Guavus to cyberdefense world, which did not match its core.

1.0
25 Sept 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The original vision was good, and the CEO has his heart in the right place. The engineering product is very good and they have some great (but wasted) talent.

Cons

Where to start? Sales team sucks big time. Endless sales cycles with multiple teams working for nought. Can't figure out what they want to be; a platform or a product company and it's too late now. Middle management is full of highly incompetent people; some directors don't know the basics of analytics or technology which is shocking and would be comical, but is downright tragic. Not transparent at all; at least in San Mateo office. No long term vision, work is strictly just to do the bare minimum to please whatever little number of customers that exist, and presumably to appease the investors by making quick money. No investment in people, and as such you are treated like another warm body till someone else takes your place. You get hired and put to work on pointless, mind numbing work. Options are diluted as hell, so no one is making money out of this endeavor. Compared to other valley companies, zero perks.

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