Pros
- Some very competent Engineers and generally a good bunch of people to work with. - Good work / life balance. - Decent benefits / compensation.
Kontras
- Company has no respect for Engineers. - Company is incapable of organic product development because they refuse to respect and retain talent. The only way they can innovate is to buy other companies. - Too many layers of management who are more concerned with reorganizing to protect their own jobs than doing what is right for the success of the company. - Management decisions are based upon politics and turf-wars between HQ in Naperville, IL and remote offices rather than what is best for the product or company as a whole. - Some very bad hiring decisions were made just to get people in the door. Resulted in incompetent or very inexperienced people working on critical projects. - Constant reorganizations and layoffs. More effort is put into reorganizing than how to produce a good product. - Poor decisions have put the company years behind the competition. - Sad story. Was a decent company until the current CEO took over. I was hoping they would continue to grow their Silicon Valley presence (like so many other companies) and become a growing force in the networking industry. Unfortunately they are reducing their presence in Silicon Valley, retreating to HQ, and making extremely poor decisions that will ultimately lead to their demise.