Sinking ship rotting from the inside - Senior Leadership Position Bugcrowd Employee Review

1.0
27 Nov 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Some amazing people, but not many left.

Cons

Cracks began to appear a couple years ago. The start of 2024 saw those cracks deepen and rot start to appear. Executive leadership has taken things off a cliff. There are a couple of good people but they're surrounded by incompetence of the highest order. The company grew too fast in last few years and it's obliterated the culture. Good, hard workers are exploited and those who drag their feet are just left there to drag others down. There's no accountability are the higher levels and decisions are made with no concern for the operational capacity to deliver. Executives demand changes without consulting those who actually make it happen. It's literally the equivalent of demanding that your head chef puts Gatorade on your prize winning salmon dish and then getting angry at them when customers send it back. They've taken a company that had so much promise and was such an amazing place to work and just thrown it in the toilet. The HR system to determine pay ranges is a joke - they calculate it by using incorrect roles from the rest of the industry in order to artificially lower the scale. Proper compensation and increases is out the window. Worked your butt off for them? Congrats, here's your jar of spit. As far as they're concerned you did the bare minimum job. Doesn't matter that you literally delivered the work of 3 people. There's people there delivering 400% of their KPI's and being told that their workload is fair and they're overpaid even when they're underpaid by $20-$30k. These weren't my roles I'm reporting on, these are other people I watched get screwed. Meanwhile other's deliver 20% of their KPI's and management won't even talk to them. The UK executive leadership they brought in was a cancer that has spread. Unless they cut it out, the company is doomed.

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5.0
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Pros

Great cool tech, loved the leadership and the vision they had

Cons

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Bugcrowd Response
1w
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We are glad to hear that you found the technology innovative and valued the leadership, vision, and direction of the company. Bugcrowd operates in a dynamic and evolving market, and like many growing technology companies, we continue to make disciplined decisions around investment, growth, and long term sustainability. We recognize that employees may experience those decisions differently, and we appreciate the balanced perspective you shared. We are grateful for your contributions during your time here and wish you continued success in your next opportunity.
1.0
12 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The actual work itself was interesting enough, I guess.

Cons

The real problem is nobody here actually acknowledges what you do. you could ship something solid, fix something broken, go above and beyond - and nothing. It's not that they ignore you on purpose, it's more like the culture just doesn't have room for " hey, good job." You get your paycheck, sure, but there's this constant feeling that your contributions are just expected background noise, which honestly gets old fast. What kills you is watching the same patterns everywhere - people putting in effort and management acts like it never happened, so after a while you stop caring because what's the point.

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Bugcrowd Response
1w
Thank you for sharing this feedback. We are glad to hear that you found the work itself interesting, but we are sorry that your experience left you feeling that your contributions were not seen or appreciated. Recognition is an important part of a healthy employee experience, and we understand how discouraging it can feel when effort, follow-through, or strong results are perceived as expected rather than acknowledged. That is not the culture we want to build. We are continuing to focus on strengthening manager effectiveness, improving communication, and creating more consistent ways to recognize meaningful contributions across the company. We know that appreciation needs to happen in day-to-day interactions, not just through formal programs or compensation.
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