McAfee reviews

3.8

62% would recommend to a friend

(2,442 total reviews)
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62% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

McAfee has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,442 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The McAfee employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Sep 19, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good work life balance, nice people

Cons

- Absolutely no vision and strategy changes with the wind - Management is mostly a glorified excel sheet and mostly cares about holding their jobs, not about actually building and improving the organization - Selling a extremely technical solution requires technical knowledge but this aspects seems to be completely overlooked and the training focus is on trivial stuff - Getting anything internal done requires a lot of time and effort since there are no processes in place - Most of the best talent has left in the past couple of years so there has been a massive loss of institutional knowledge - Compensation model does not reflect the reality The culture itself feels like a cult. You are being told day in day out how McAfee is the number 1 cyber sec company in the world but the reality is something completely different. You are supposed to drink the Kool-aid, not bring up any lagging or negative aspects of the company. Start following the company around the web and you'll notice how most of the marketing revolves around how the CEO has been nominated by some obscure website as the "most innovative leader" and yet the company is falling apart.

2.0
May 3, 2016

Not a "Great place to work"

Recommend
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Pros

You can work from home. Cork is a nice place to live.

Cons

Regular reorgs and management changes. Not as nice place to work since intel integeration. Lots of uncertainty given large intel layoffs. Technology used and development environments are old fashioned. Athmosphere within the office is negitive overall.

2.0
May 7, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Competitive pay - Competitive benefits - Talented employees - Company values are practiced widely across the company - There is a general feeling of "we're all in this together" across most teams and cross-team collaboration

Cons

- The company has made so many huge changes throughout the years, from being its own private entity, to selling major ownership to Intel and going public, then Intel selling its majority shares and going private again, to an IPO, and now to selling its entire Enterprise division to venture capitalist firm, Symphony Technology Group. - The company has no clear direction of where it wants to go... it has aimlessly tacked its business strategy numerous times - High churn of company leaders and executives - Ever since the company was hacked in 2019 and hackers accessed product source code, IT has made pushed excessive restrictions & requirements on product teams which require additional resources from product teams although funding for additional resources was never provided - Company executives mislead employees and make huge decisions in secret. There is zero transparency in this matter and typical of "big corp" mentality. Expect to be treated as a just a number (in $$ of course) and replaceable resource. - Since the company is now only focused on their Mobile products division, there is not much growth left as there is very little innovation in this space and the company is fighting to maintain consumer subscriptions (e.g., how many people do you know are still paying for antivirus software?) - Very little career growth

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