Pros
It's mile wide, inch deep approach to cyber security introduces new security professionals to many areas of the industry. It provides a training ground for many talented contributors who go on to do great things.
Cons
Optiv is top heavy- filled with managers, directors and VPs whose primary goal is to push the slaves on the bottom harder and unethically bleed their customers and partners of incredible amounts of money. The services delivered are marked-up vendor or third party delivered with the few exceptional members of the team running around pulling a bait-and-switch routine or trying to salvage the remains of failed projects. The sales team are the prized pig at Optiv who are over-paid and over-praised constantly for playing a sleazy middle man on a unbelievably marked-up widget or service. Benefits are a joke and although the leadership keeps promising to make things better most employees pay over $1200 a month for the most basic of coverage. You are criticized by your peers when you work hard and make them look bad but the management treat everyone as if they are a disposable number even when you go above and beyond.