Netskope
Santa Clara, CA · founded 2012
Netskope is a Santa Clara cloud-security company (SASE/SSE, zero trust) founded in 2012 by Sanjay Beri and Krishna Narayanaswamy, now around 3,000 people and a Certified Great Place to Work. Its own pitch is an ego-light, 'best ideas win' culture where founders and experts work shoulder-to-shoulder, and the benefits are genuinely broad: fully-paid 12-week parental leave for every kind of new parent, employer-funded HSA, flexible PTO, a birthday day off, and lots of wellness programming. Employees echo the good work-life balance and remote flexibility, but the recurring gripes are leadership accountability, internal politics, and pay/raises that lag the market and lean on equity. Go in for the security work and the balance; negotiate hard on cash and expect promotions to be political.
see the full file on Netskopedocumented benefits (21)
| Birthing-parent leave | 12 weeks |
|---|---|
| Partner leave | 12 weeks |
| How leave is framed | equal_all_parents |
| Adoption leave | 12 weeks |
| Countries with offices | United States, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Australia, Singapore |
| HSA employer contribution | $1,200 |
| Financial advising | yes |
| Dental | yes |
| Vision | yes |
| FSA | yes |
| Gym / fitness subsidy | yes |
| Volunteer days | offered |
| Wellness / mental-health days | 4 days |
| Offices | Santa Clara, St. Louis, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Australia |
| Commuter benefit | yes |
| Parking or transit | yes |
| Employee discount portal | yes |
| Median filed wage | $160,000 |
| Life insurance | yes |
| Disability | yes |
| Going public | listed, offering priced |
what Netskope pays
Median of 3 certified wages filed with the US Department of Labor: $160,000.
Half of Netskope's certified filings fall between $158,735 and $160,000.
| role | median | filings | range |
|---|---|---|---|
| software engineer iv | $160,000 | 2 filings | $158,735 to $160,000 |
Source: US Department of Labor, FY2025 Q4. Read 2026-07-27.
notable perks
- Aaptiv fitness membership with 10,000+ on-demand classes plus guided meditations
- A paid day off every year on your birthday
- Four Global Wellness Days a year, each kicking off a quarterly Global Wellness Challenge
- Awesome Women of Netskope (AWON) group with casual dinners and guest speakers
- Company running, hiking, and biking groups
- Annual global engineering hackathon and an AI 'Promptathon'
the legal floor where they are
Set by law, not by Netskope. It applies to every employer in CA.
| IVF cycles the state covers | California requires IVF from 1 January 2026, and only from large employers. SB 729 (2024) rewrote Health and Safety Code § 1374.55 so that a large group health care service plan contract 'issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, shall provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and fertility services, including a maximum of three completed oocyte retrievals with unlimited embryo transfers', following ASRM guidelines and using single embryo transfer where medically appropriate. Large group means 100 or more employees. Small group plans need only be OFFERED the coverage rather than provide it, religious employers are excluded, Medi-Cal managed care is exempt, and CalPERS plans are delayed to 1 July 2027. The original 1 July 2025 date was pushed back a budget trailer bill, AB 116 (2025). THE LIMIT THAT DECIDES WHETHER THIS REACHES YOU: a state insurance mandate binds only fully insured plans. A self-funded employer plan is governed federally under ERISA and is preempted, and KFF's 2025 employer survey puts 67% of covered workers — 80% at firms of 200 or more — in a self-funded plan. At most large California employers this law therefore does not apply, and the fertility benefit on the page is the company's own choice. (Senate Bill 729 (2024), which repealed and added Section 1374.55 of the Health and Safety Code and amended Section 10119.6 of the Insurance Code; the operative date was moved from 1 July 2025 to 1 January 2026 by Assembly Bill 116 (2025).) |
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| Adoption leave the law gives | 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period on the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. There is no federal paid adoption leave. (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(B) and 2612(c); eligibility at 29 U.S.C. 2611(2) and (4). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code.) |
| Pay when you are ill | No federal law requires any paid sick leave. The FLSA does not require payment for time not worked, and the FMLA gives 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period for a serious health condition, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. Any paid sick time comes from a state or city law, or from the employer's own choice. (Fair Labor Standards Act, per the Department of Labor's statement on payment for time not worked; Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(D) and 2612(c). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code on govinfo.gov.) |
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