CIO here. They are known to be incredibly pushy. In my company we RFP'd for our endpoint & cyber security. Found the CS salesperson went over me to approach our CEO who is completely non-technical to try and seal a contract because I was on leave for 1 week out of service (and this was known to them). When I found out by our CEO informing me of the approach we were happy to sign with SentinelOne
One thing I'm really happy about at my current company is that when a sales person from a vendor (not Crowdstrike) tried that our CEO absolutely ripped them a new one and basically banned that company from being a vendor for a decade.
I had a very similar experience, I was leading the selection process for our new endpoint security vendor, Crowdstrike people:
- verbally attacked/abused a selection team member
- were ranting constantly about golf with our execs
- were dismissive and just annoying throughout
- raised hell with our execs when they learned they were not going to POC, basically went through everyone of them simultaneously
- I had to get a rep kicked out of the rfp as he was constantly disrespectful
We did not pick them, and cancelled any other relashionship we had with them, in IR space by example.
