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      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

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Senior management

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      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
      1.0
      Jun 27, 2017

      The Titanic of Cybersecurity.

      Web applications developer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Some of the co-workers are nice, people higher up and HR, not so much, too arrogant.

      Cons

      Top heavy management, too many people with no talent calling the shots, not enough people actually "doing" anything. For a company that is supposed to be dealing with such high tech issues as cyber security, they have a very primitive technical setup, actually embarrassing. Russian culture compared to American culture is strange to say the least, it simply doesn't float here. Very much a kill or be killed mentality is required to survive, I have seen people thrown under the bus on many occasions for nothing, fear breeds fear. Very low pay compared to other companies in the same space.

      1.0
      Nov 12, 2017

      Example Of Micro Managed & terribly managed Company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Nice Office Location Very few Good Colleagues

      Cons

      Micro managed at its Core, Single person decides everything and gives no control to anybody else. Terrible/poor hiring strategy, only one person decides and single round of interview without any developers involvement. Favouritism, fresher became senior just in 10 months. 70% crowd came from a single company and entire upper management is from there, so they never accept others. Claimed agile but nothing agile about it. Extremely russian way of working and if russia says anything, thats it, no other opinions. HR make sure to update fake reviews. Large number of testers but no Testing and extremely poor code quality. Arrogant developers who are proud of not writing test cases. Management just wants you to write code without any quality, just make russians happy. Waiting for a very soon positive review by some of the Hrs.

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      Kaspersky Response
      8y
      Hi! Thank you for taking time to post this review! Regardless of what you're thinking, our HR is not posting fake reviews on a Glassdoor. However, we try to answer any reviews. First of all, I want to thank you for staying at Kaspersky Lab despite your experience hasn't been positive so far. We would appreciate if you contact R&D HR Partner Marina Belkina with more details. You can send her an anonymous email if you want to. Thank you for appreciating office location and some of your colleagues. And I'm 100% sure that your Russian colleagues are not happy to have the low-quality code. Also, if you want to, we can offer you cross-cultural awareness training to help with negotiations strategies with Russian peers. I believe it's more about different communication styles than about not appreciating opinions. Also, feel free to contact me via email or Linkedin. Alena Reva Glassdoor PM
      1.0
      Jun 17, 2017

      Will be gone within 5 years at this rate

      Web developer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Healthcare. 2. Free tea and coffee but that's pretty much par for the course at most companies. 3. An onsite gym if you can get a moment to actually use it is a different story.

      Cons

      1. If you wish to make about 20-25% LESS than at other companies for the same role then this could be the place for you! 2. Work/Life balance is a joke, you'll find yourself working at nights and weekends because of awful management. 3. You have to be in the clique to advance yourself in any way. 4. Awful broken English from Russian colleagues - sometimes making simple jobs seem like a nightmare. 5. Incompetent people seem to "fail upwards" whilst dedicated and skilled employees fall by the wayside - again the "clique" effect. 6. Enjoy being underpaid whilst Eugene Kaspersky becomes a newly minted billionaire, globetrotting like a poor mans Richard Branson. 7. It's a Russian company that is basically in the news every other week for the wrong reasons, just recently - even the department of homeland security has issued a guidance to "avoid the vendor" 8. Progress is as slow as a glacier, example - company switched from Drupal CMS to Tridion, a process that took a mere 4 years. 9. Extremely long and dull days, micromanaged to death on everything, creative thinking is not applauded. 10. Revolving doors employment, I have seen good employees come and go whilst the driftwood seems to linger on.

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      Kaspersky Response
      8y
      First of all, thank you for caring so much about this company to bring this to the forefront. It must be tough for you to experience all of it and do your daily job with proper efficiency. Please, find time to contact me directly. I promise to find a way to address almost all issues you experience except for 4 and 6. Regarding 4: Our company is a transnational one, people of more than 37 nationalities work here, and English is a not native language for most of them, including your Russian peers. I can offer you company sponsored language learning if you want to. You can learn Russian amongst other languages to make communication with your Russian peers easier. Regarding 6: we have no influence over Eugene's spendings, fortune, and lifestyle. But he regularly reads Glassdoor reviews, and I'm sure will view yours. Alena Reva
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