Dysfunctional, strategy keeps changing, and parent company is clueless - Sales Guavus Employee Review

1.0
27 Jan 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The founder, the CTO organization, Product Management and Data Science teams are highly competent people, and these teams are generally very helpful towards sales.

Cons

The company has not been able to develop a viable product portfolio for repeatable sales after 10+ years of existence. Guavus was acquired by Thales ~2 years ago, and the parent company is completely clueless about what to do with a Big Data Analytics/ML/AI company, as it has no competency in this field. While our competitors are getting massive amounts of funding ($13.5B+ of VC funding for AI companies in the 1st 3 quarters of 2019 alone, on the back of $16B+ funding in 2018), Thales wants to actually pull back on commitments and funding, and still magically wants to grow the business. Big disconnect, or 'head in the sand' syndrome here. Avoid this company like the plague.

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5.0
6 Jun 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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