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Barracuda Networks reviews

3.3

52% would recommend to a friend

(740 total reviews)
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Rohit Ghai

78% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Barracuda Networks has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 740 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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740 reviews
1.0
Nov 5, 2017

Support team is in huge disarray

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- You get a paycheck (low though compared to market value) - Lunch 3 times a week - Health benefits

Cons

Cons outweigh the pros by 30:1 Employees here have no value other than a piece of paper, for a support job where sometimes you will get difficult problems sometimes and easier problems other times. You are just a number on a piece of paper at this company, it doesn't matter whether or not you do good work, or bad work, if you can put up numbers. Feel free to do whatever you want. Training is atrocious, there is no training other than watching hours of video that you will not be able to apply to your everyday job. The only real resource is to keep on asking questions on their chat platform, where only a handful of people can help, and when some of these handful of knowledge blackholes leave the company, it leaves a huge void and there is nothing being done about this problem. It's as if management does not care whether or not you are prepared to tackle your everyday tasks, they just care if you have a hand and can pick up a phone. The worst thing is that showing competence almost seems like it works against you, if you are exceeding expectations, you are asked to learn more products with more difficult networking concepts/infrastructure with no pay raise. You are simply tasked with the harder problems just because you can.

3.0
Aug 31, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great starting point for a career. Good tech and security policies used

Cons

Employees in the support division of the company are overworked, unappreciated, and severely underpaid. Management does not take feedback or criticism from the employees well at all. Not a lot of gratitude when things go well, but plenty of blame is laid on the employees if something does go wrong. Management also does not listen to the support technicians if they point out something wrong until there are hundreds of cases of it, or only if certain employees make the suggestions.

1.0
Mar 11, 2017

Territory Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free beer at HQ. Partial 401K match, though very little. good group of coworkers.

Cons

Management is tasked with micromanaging. Every single activity is logged and there are huge monitors above the octagon, showing your stats to everyone in the company. Since other folks have elaborated on the octagon, read their reviews as it's 100% true. 30 calls a day and 2 hours of talk time are required. Since two hours isn't that much, you are better off keeping your calls short which leads to lesser quality. Management prefers quantity over quality. If you hit your quota but don't make 30 calls a day, you will eventually hear from the VP of Sales. The pay is very very low. If you have zero to little tech experience and you want to get a foot in the door, use Barracuda and move on as quickly as possible. Similar jobs in the valley will pay you double. The sales quotas are artificially high. If you are at 80% of your number, the company reaches its internal goals and the employee makes less money but Barracuda still wins. The employee moral is terrible. The turnover is insane. The people that stay, at least 40-50% of the sales team want to leave. Lots of employees can't leave because they have crappy resumes with only Barracuda being their technical experience. Most employees will tell you the good people get out asap. Quotas are not realistic. The company goal is for their sales employees to reach 80% of their quota. The company wins and the employee loses. Roughly 10% of the sales reps hit their quota. Sometimes it's lower. Management doesn't care and don't bother asking for attainable quotas. If they say you will make 50K a year in commissions, the realistic number is between 35-40K. Management doesn't care about the employees and some of the mid level managers will admit this to you, after a beer or two. The only thing that matters is the bottom line, since Barracuda is public. The company scrapes by with underpaid and mediocre talent. Look elsewhere for employment, unless you want a tech sales job and can't get one elsewhere.

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