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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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771 reviews
4.0
Nov 5, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The company actually gives a damn about how comfortable you are at work - gym, massage, good insurance. Office culture is very pleasant, the majority of colleagues are able to sort even the most unpleasant crisises with certain amount of professionalism and detachment from emotions (so your percentage of shouting hysterical people will be a tad lower comparing to other workplaces).

Cons

The first unpleasant thing you'll encounter is the salary you've agreed upon while negotiating the position will be divided into 2 separate portions, the first one (60-80%) will actually be your salary, and the rest (20-40%) will be paid (or not) if your management feels thing's going good. Which is especially weird if you're working in engineering role and don't have sales performance KPIs. This isn't being discussed during the interviews, so it's the surprise you're face with while accepting the offer or in some cases while signing the documents on your first day. Be prepared to the fact that almost no one in the company is actually responsible and accountable for anything (be it technical results of sales forecasts). This means that other than a few people who actually care for their domain for their own personal reasons it would be actually almost impossible to make people do their jobs well (or at all). If something bad happens - there's slim chance to none that any lessons will be learned since almost no one works of improving business processes in all of the departments.

2.0
Oct 9, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

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.

4.0
Oct 9, 2014

Senior Software Engineer

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, professional environment, interesting technical challenges, lots of opportunities for career progression, adequate compensation

Cons

Product direction occasionally neglects quality in favor of time-to-market which is a common thing in large corporate environment. This is not a recurring trend however.

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