The licorice jelly-bean. - Anonymous employee SANS Institute Employee Review

2.0
30 Dec 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fully remote work. Reasonable pay in your first year The name sells itself Some genuinely great instructors

Cons

The caliber of the instructors is top notch and the product is itself high quality, but the management apparatus around the sales org is terrible. Its like adding fennel to your garden and watching the growth of the plants around it suffer from stunted growth due to allelopathy. It doesn't really matter if you are good at your job as long as your flavor supports the overpowering licorice flavor of fennel. It doesn't matter if you like it as long as you say "thank you sir, may I have another". Take courses from SANS and GIAC if your company will pay for it. But don't work there if you want to sell something. You won't be able to get the taste of fennel out of your mouth.

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