Pros
Overview: Having worked at multiple companies before joining CyberArk, I was expecting a well oiled machine that was the market leader in an innovative cyber security space. The solution that CyberArk is selling is a fantastic piece of software and deserves to retain its position in the market. Naturally being a market leader it effectively sells itself and in some regions even a cold call is warm. The majority of the senior leadership team are very humble and can be found sitting opposite junior members of the company at events and conferences.
Cons
Culture and career: CyberArk boasts about having a fantastic culture. It doesn’t. It’s a myth created by and bought into by management that the CyberArk culture is the best in the industry. The myth is used as a bargaining chip to pay lower wages, low commission and to convince people that they are lucky to be in the company. The company forbids its employees to discuss their wage, not uncommon but in today’s day-and-age such practices create an air of suspicion. It is apparent that pay rises are given out based on favouritism rather than merit; some of the longer serving members of the team have not seen a pay rise in nearly two years despite overachieving on all their targets. This leads me onto the lack of control some managers have over their staff. By not paying attention to employees, people exploit other people’s work and claim it as their own allowing them to hit their targets, get paid increased commission and skew their numbers by nearly 80-100%. This practice leads to the wrong people getting promoted and the company suffering in the long run. This is also one of the practices that leads to high turnover in some of the teams. In other words, you will have a miserable time at CyberArk unless you cheat and steal. This is not a company for someone who has any integrity. Structure: The teams are too big which leads to silos forming and subgroups growing within them. There is no cross-department interaction which leads to each silo looking after themselves and inhibiting any form of knowledge sharing from taking place. This leads to a lot of duplication of effort and bad coordination between teams and hinders anyone from being able to move into new departments. Management and leadership: There are a number of competent and incompetent managers in most companies. CyberArk has its fair share. Spanning across multiple departments there are managers who seem incapable of performing their roles. From HR’s inability to see arising problems in labour turnover, absenteeism and general disgruntlement to Heads of Department who try to undermine peoples’ trust in each other in an attempt to impose some form of arbitrary control over individuals. There is no visibility of what management are actually doing even when they are paid in excess of £100,000, instead employees are treated like drones, judged on their ability to perform in the role they are in and casually undermined and rudely belittled if they offer any challenge to their managers or seniors. Overall As a first job to make some money if you're still living with your parents, maybe, but definitely not more than that.