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senior product manager

senior software engineer

principal product manager

McAfee

McAfee used to be a culture of smart people who actually helped each other, with a shared purpose and having a little bit of fun along the way. I worked there 10 years. It lost its sense of purpose after coming out of Intel and the true leaders have since left the company behind because they couldn't get it back on track with the money grubber management that the VC brought in. 

Now, most of the orgs are being pressured to drive to the all mighty dollar for the sake of only profit, not service or quality products. Droves of great problem solving engineers left because of this multi-year trend. 

It is eat or be eaten and step on anyone who doesn't line up. I finally left because the stress wasn't worth it. Over the last two years, most of my colleagues have also left in disillusionment. People who come in now and don't know better, may have better luck, but for those of us who know what it used to be, it is very sad.

The culture and the people are great. Management is horrible.

Changes made by upper management do not make any sense and it's obvious they knew nothing about any of the people working for them when they made organizational changes. 

They consistently reward those that shouldn't be and overlook those that should be. Essentially people who are not good at their jobs are rewarded, and they consistently take work from non-productive employees and dump it on the those actually doing their jobs. 

There are really good managers, but unfortunately they are surrounded by other managers that are not. 

Don't plan on getting promoted unless you are part of the "buddy system". 

Management attitude is that they could care less for any of their employees which translates to poor employee attitude. 

Main reason for staying are co-workers. There are some very talented people here. They all have great personalities that unfortunately now have poor attitudes because they are unappreciated and overworked.

- Everyday was different at McAfee, it is very high pace, high stress environment. I helped with entering in projects into the QuickBase queue and running the collateral through the process until completed. I often kept my department organized with creating many excel spreadsheets with information regarding many different aspects of the marketing programs department. 
- I learned about how to conduct myself in a corporate environment.
- My boss was truly fabulous and she often spent time teaching me every aspect of the job. This ultimately is what gave me an edge up from the other interns and landing me a job at McAfee. 
- The hardest part of the job was responding to unhappy clients when their project took longer than expected at the design agency. 
- The most enjoyable part of the job was working with my senior level team and gaining important knowledge for my future.

Working as a Tier I support representative for McAfee. I currently support product lines including but not limited to EPO, VSE, Virex, Netshield for Netware, Virusscan Thin Client, HIP, Rogue System Sensor, and other products within those specific lines. During this time, I have become a leader to my peers in knowledge and also in workflow.  I have taken part in several initiatives to help improve processes within the department as well as have taken it upon myself to help maintain and improve morale and overall happiness of the department and associated departments. I have networked within the support organization and have established working relationship with my peers in Tier I as well as in other groups including Platinum tier II and tier III, Perimeter and IPS groups within the same environment. Have most recently transitioned into the Perimeter team and have become a top volume worker within this organization and standout volume call taker with good stats across the board.

McAfee is currently being run by leaders who value their reward if they can sell or take the company public. Employee well being is an after thought. Dedication and commitment by employees is not rewarded or valued. Lots of lip service is given to caring for employees, but the truth is that you are just a number and expendable.

Hiring from outside is also a problem. New leaders are being brought in at a quick rate and they are making poor decisions prior to learning the customers and opportunities that exist.

Their mission is a noble one, but their values are not being honored and that for me is a problem. I hope they turn back and remember the dedicated employees who got them to where they are today and start doing right by them. Hire leaders, not bosses; listen to ideas, not assume you know best; and treat employees with respect.

Analyze, innovate, architect, design and develop software programs for frameworks, technology components and end user applications; Code and debug complex issues when required.
Write and review designs and test documents; Work with QA to ensure highest quality for product deliverables. Review and contribute to various test plans created by QA. Work closely with the Professional Services teams to support implementations when required.
Work with support to provide timely resolutions.
Lead and co-ordinate development with remote teams.
Work with Documentation team to ensure highest quality documentation for software deliverables. Review and contribute to product documentation.

My last position required me to multi-task. I enjoyed it very much. I managed around 15 to 42 support technicians, team leads and product leads; managed the phone queues with the CMS and Avaya software; held team and one on one meetings; handled customer service issues related to support; provided reports on KPI metrics for senior management. In my almost 11 years at McAfee, I've learned the products they offer, learned how to sell them, learned how to do field channel sales, learned how to manage people both remote and local. The hardest part of being a manager is having to terminate an employee. I enjoyed sales as well as managing people.

A typical day was unique as this internship program was scheduled to be onsite at their Headquarters in Plano, Texas. However due to Covid-19 it was removed remote. I was just thankful that this company kept their internship program as many canceled their entire internship program that year due to Covid-19. I learned how to work remotely with a team for a large company. The management was amazing, I learned to ask questions on how I can learn by myself with the tools provided. The hardest part was creating interesting articles to write. The funnest thing about the role was all of the interactive intern meetings. 

I absolutely LOVE my coworkers at McAfee! They are the entire reason I worked with McAfee for so long. They are talented, helpful, and equally motivated to do a good job. There are good benefits, good compensation, good vacation.

Now the bad, the upper managers... My personal manager was wonderful and I think he did a great job. What is bad is the upper-management managers. They are complete imbeciles who try a little bit to make it seem like they care, but they make idiotic decisions that can only be in their own self-interest, not for you, nor the company's interests.

McAfee is a great environment for getting things done. It is a very fast paced company. It was very easy to move forward with a project. The managers have high expectations and reward the best projects with additional bonuses. The company culture is hard to define because the management is in transition as there have been a lot of departures from normal attrition to lay-offs.

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