Brocade reviews

3.1

64% would recommend to a friend

(137 total reviews)
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Lloyd Carney

51% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

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3.0
Jan 18, 2017

Great learning experience

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Pros

Great co-workers and generally great ground level to middle management. The wages are pretty good, and the benefits are ok. For DC networking, Brocade is quite good.

Cons

401k match was cut in half a year or two ago with no notification to employees. Senior level to executive level management does not seem to have a firm understanding of our industry segment which has translated into only moderate advances in our technology. They seem to understand running a business well, but not the more specific aspects of running a great network product portfolio. We always seems to be one step behind our two biggest competitors as a result. Also, there is a lot of uncertainty around the acquisition of our IP business. I don't fault the management for this, but it has had a negative impact on morale and sales cycles.

3.0
Dec 23, 2016

Mixed experience

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good compensation, flexibility, some great colleagues

Cons

Lot of politics, bad engineering management,

3.0
Nov 7, 2016

A run of the mill company for its size

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some departments like SAN Engineering were rewarding to work with. Good base pay. Remained the storage leader against Cisco

Cons

Never integrated Foundry. Was rumored to merge with Juniper before former execs ego got in the way and they instead bought Foundry, a marginal player in the LAN. Lots of unethical behavior and incompetence in marketing.

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