Blue Coat Systems reviews

Overweight with senior management, perhaps "too many cooks" is an apt statement here. They're constantly meddling in product planning and decisions that would be best left to the people they hired to actually manage the products. Incredibly political organization. Poor morale, with employees living in fear. Lack of innovation. So process-laden that even the smallest decisions require a PowerPoint presentation and approval from execs. Rife with long, unproductive meetings with no real agenda, where everyone is on laptops and no real decisions get made. Not a very fun place to work. Little opportunity for advancement or career growth here. Great values, no culture.

A lot of politics at Blue Coat. It seemed that someone was always scheming / manipulating to try to get ahead, making others look bad and too more energy is spent on playing politics than improving the products and services to customers. They often do random RIFs - and my guess is just so that it keeps the stock price from dropping.