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Barracuda Networks reviews

3.3

49% would recommend to a friend

(741 total reviews)
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Rohit Ghai

75% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Barracuda Networks has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 741 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Barracuda Networks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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741 reviews
2.0
Sep 10, 2015

Way more cons than pros

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Free lunches every day, free gym and other perks (game tickets, bar inside the building.. etc.) -Young, fun culture. -Good place to get your foot in the door if you have no experience.

Cons

-All of the money made (which is not a small amount) is obviously going into the wrong hands. Unlimited marketing budget but workers (all departments from finance, engineering, and sales..) are getting paid WAY below industry standards. Also, many of the managers are former bartenders who have very limited technical knowledge. -To go off my point above- money is not being well spent. Rather than funneling all of the money into the execs and marketing, why not put it into the products? So many complaints from customers about products and no decisions to properly invest into them. -Parking sucks -You work WAY more than the average company (for much little pay.) Since lunches are catered, you are pretty much expected to only take a 30 minute lunch. Anything around an hour is looked down upon. - Very quick turnaround here. All of the good and competent workers realize in about a year or so that they could get paid much more and be valued WAY more at a different company... this is why all of the excellent sales people and engineers leave. Which is terrible for the team that is left behind.

2.0
Jan 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good opportunity to learn some leading edge technologies. The employee base is a hard working dedicated bunch. HR tries their best. The bring you food every day.

Cons

Other than the product, I don't have much good to say. The middle management is pathetic. For the rank and file employee, there is virtually no opportunity to grow.

1.0
Oct 28, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Casual dress code. Keg in front on CEO's office. They have a luxury suite at San Jose Sharks games and occassionally entertain the staff there.

Cons

They pay here is horrible. During my time there countless sales reps, SE's, and employees in other departments left Barracuda for jobs paying 30-50% more for the same exact job/role. Barracuda is a boiler room sweat shop and has an extremely cliqueish culture. The CEO Dean Drako is the most rude and assuming person I have ever worked for in 25 years in the workforce.

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