Verisign reviews about "compensation"

1. Verisign is a one-trick pony, content to milk it's com/net monopoly for as long as it can. However, that lack of revenue diversity means they are one outage away from being destroyed as a company. Best case, they'll be a 500-person company in a few years. Get ready for big layoffs. 2. Senior management (director and above) are some of the worst I've seen in my career. Political hacks with virtually no tech game. Causing an exodus of top-notch tech talent to competitors. Verisign senior management wouldn't recognize talent if it walked up and bit them in the nose.

Overall, not a good place for engineering. Extremely risk averse and process heavy. People rise in the ranks based on tenure and personal relationships rather than ability and contribution. The company culture does not promote openness, honesty or collaboration.

Too many policies and no real benefits. Not really a technology company- works like a bank. Telecommuting is not allowed Employees are expected to travel for work but are not allowed to stay back and use PTO- have to return immediately (another policy) Arrival and departure times are monitored by HR - they run reports to see when someone comes in and leaves the building No innovation CEO only worries about stock price and shareholders- not the people who work for him Compensation used to be good but HR/CFO is gradually taking everything away (Bonus, stock etc).

Extremely weak management. There is no career path or sense of an Individual Development Plan. You do well here if you are in the "click", basically those that attend all of the Happy Hours, if not, then you can rest assured that you are 100% expendable. The company has learned over the last few years that with poor management means you have weak managers who do not know how to develop their staff. To adapt to this self creation problem, the company has moved into multiple times a year restructuring, which allows them to lay off people instead of working through any process. NOTE: if you are here are going to work here, keep you head down and don't get in the crosshairs of any of the favorites. If you don't know who they are then you certainly are not one of them. The management, and about 60% of the employees are stagnant and do not want change at all. They believe "if it isn't broken, then let's not fix it". Instead, they should be asking "what can we do better and be more efficient in".

Monopoly enables lackadaisical behavior with no real interest in innovation Very toxic political place Promotions happen for friends of the connected more than competence Diversity gone wrong - Women promoted based on compliance to status quo as opposed to competence and accomplishments Huge tolerance for inaction and incompetence. The .com cash cow enables this behavior Gatekeepers for establishing and maintaining ethics are the biggest violators

There is very unique culture at Verisign that you rarely see in NoVa. There are employees that have been here 10, 15, 20 or more years. While that may sound wonderful, it is detrimental to an organization that has recognized, "if we don't evolve with the rest of the tech companies around us, we will fail". There are many folks here who are stubbornly resistant to change because they have been doing it "their" way for so long. And even though the executive leadership is trying hard to make some significant changes, there are those special few that get a pass to continue doing things the way they want. Darwin said it best, "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change." Another con with having a low turnover is there seems to be little room for growth. There is definitely an "inner circle" that is very hard to break. There are literally people here that can do NO wrong. It's almost cult-like. The weak will not survive.

Middle management is very bad. Cliquish is an inadequate word for how insular it is. Execs at the top basically lucked into the goose that laid the golden egg back in the '90s and have squandered shareholder value since then. 10 years of massive nonsensical acquisitions during the late 90s-early 00s only to do a 180 and sell it all off for pennies on the dollar as the market tanked in 2008-2010. Execs still made millions of course and think they are infallible. Only one real product left (DNS) Since divesting almost every product other than DNS resources have been wasted trying to come up with new directions without any success. Company is now run by the CFO and the squeezing has started in earnest. The negative consequences will start showing up in the next few years.

Lot of politics with no technical work Inefficient management

No room to grow, basic salary increases each year. People do not leave because the salary and benefits are so good. Very hard to move up unless someone leaves the company then it is based on who likes you when you get promoted. Before COVID they did not want you to work from home, old fashion "they want to see you".