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.
