Information Security Analyst
Pros
Very young workplace, almost everyone is recent college grads. Very fun, and CEO John Marshall kept it super fun ever since startup mode to being bought out by VMware. Most employees will do work that's very complex and senior level and have a chance to gain important skills. This is not a place to work at if you are skilled, rather it's a place where you work to develop skills. Once you have the skills, you leave AirWatch and double your salary somewhere else. Also, take advantage of the VMware name on your resume.
Cons
Internal employees are not valued and trained. The VMware acquisition was a cluster with poor management directives, especially on the DC Ops / Infosec side of the business. Information Security was seen as your typical 'check the checkbox' type of initiative, instead of a business initiative. Upper management treated infosec as a hinderance to business and more of a 'how do we make money off of this' model, instead of let's change our culture approach. Being underpaid was fine (as I was out to soak in skills) , but when your work isn't valued around by the business, you lose motivation quickly. There are lots of faults in every layer of management, but if executive management doesn't shift their current culture, the information security department will cease to exist. Maybe the culture will change once all the AirWatch executives are gone and replaced by VMware appointed executives. Skills that were worth $100-120k / year were being done by guys making less than $50k. No sane security professional will ever do the job at that rate ever again, especially considering the complexity of the projects.
