Killing the Golden Goose - Senior Security Consultant Optiv Employee Review

1.0
25 May 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

working from home is nice, there are some smart people in the company, work life balance is pretty good, pretty high-profile clients

Cons

Private equity who owns the company just cares about profits+growth at the expense of everything else, so optiv rushes to hire the bottom of the barrel in order to keep growing as fast as possible additionally they are trying to cut costs to get numbers up too. many people report having expense reports rejected because 'we get charged per expense report by concur'. it's as asinine as it sounds. Can't retain talented people or hire new ones because the salaries are low and the company isn't able to distinguish which people are talented in the first place

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5.0
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CEO approval
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Pros

Great work-life balance in the company

Cons

There have been many layoffs over the years

2.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Unlimited PTO Supportive Management Depending on who you get Good work life balance as long as you don't take the job with you after hours Work from Home Hands on Training - could still use improvement Annual pay increase

Cons

2 layoffs in a year when they keps saying everything was fine.... Laying off core contributors so now everyone who is left is doing the work of 2-3 people and not being compensated accordingly Only way to get a worth while pay increase is to move up in the company the annual increases are not inline with inflation or cost of living

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