We attack businesses for a living. So we hold ourselves to the same standard internally. Here's what 100% participation and three consecutive years in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work really tells us.
We attack businesses for a living. We find the gaps, expose the assumptions, and tell clients the truth about where they’re vulnerable, even when it’s uncomfortable. That’s the job.
It means we hold ourselves to the same standard internally. So when the Sunday Times Best Places to Work results come in, we don’t just look at the score. We look at who showed up.
This year, every single person at CovertSwarm completed the WorkL survey. 100%. Not most of us, all of us.
That number matters more to us than the ranking. Scores can be dressed up. Participation can’t. When the whole team shows up, it means people believe their voice changes something. That’s not something you can fake. It’s something you have to earn.
The score, for the record: 90% overall engagement, 18 points above the sector benchmark, positioned in the “Excellent” category. Every engagement driver either held or improved. Wellbeing, in particular, moved in a direction we’re genuinely proud of and intend to keep.
Our team spends their days breaking things. Finding the gap in the firewall, the flaw in the process, the assumption everyone else accepted as safe. That requires a mindset that’s hard to hire for and harder to keep: precise, adversarial, relentlessly curious.
People like that don’t stay somewhere out of inertia. They stay because the work is genuinely good, the team around them is exceptional, and they feel trusted enough to do their best thinking. Three years of results tell us that environment is working. 100% participation tells us people agree.
Good results don’t close the loop. As CovertSwarm grows, keeping everyone connected to where we’re headed becomes harder and more important at the same time. We want our people to understand the decisions being made, not just hear about them afterwards. That’s the work in front of us.
Wellbeing improved significantly this year. We’re keeping it that way. This is demanding work. The environment around it has to be worth it.
This is yours. The scores, the participation rate, the fact that this place is what it is. You built it.
We’re proud of it. We’re not finished with it.
We’re growing and we’re hiring. If offensive security is where you do your best work, take a look at what we’re building and join the swarm.