Pros
What made Quorum Cyber a great place to work was its people. Those great people were often initially attracted by the culture, forgoing more lucrative salaries at bigger companies. That culture - unlimited leave, fun company events, a warm informality with senior management, relative transparency and openness - was largely dismantled following the purchase of two North American companies in 2024. With that, what started as a trickle has become a steady flow of great people leaving, both via redundancy and voluntarily electing to work elsewhere. What's left is a grey cyber company - with many talented people remaining - but lacking the innovation and differentiation to attract the brightest and best, and creating the conditions for inconsistent service through stretched and siloed teams. Every indication is that those remaining will be subjected to ratcheting investor demands and further change as the company merges and consolidates.
Kontras
Because culture is unquantifiable, the leadership and investors have repeatedly underestimated the cost of losing it. It is difficult to measure the damage when employees no longer advocate for the company, no longer recommend it to friends, or no longer feel confident encouraging contacts to become clients, even with the decent referral bonus. Few good people will go above and beyond for a company that has treated them poorly, and clients can sense when things are not quite right. This is not just a neutral change as QC 'grows'. The leadership team have justified changes on the basis that they will make QC look and act more like cyber companies they've previously worked at. But emulation is not leadership, replication is not creation. There is an assumption that the changes will lead to growth, but no explanation as to how - what will cause a prospective organisation to trust their security to QC over competitors? Why will existing clients continue to pay a premium?