Calix reviews

4.5

92% would recommend to a friend

(1,135 total reviews)
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Michael Weening

94% approve of CEO

92% positive business outlook

Calix has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,135 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Calix employee rating is 24% above average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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5.0
Aug 5, 2022
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Pros

Management cares deeply about work/life balance and creating an environment for everyone to thrive, both professionally and personally. Not just empty words - it is baked into the culture of the company. Product development has evolved into an orderly quarterly cadence release that has become fundamental to Calix development culture. While it can be intense at times, the entire organization understands the deadlines and is now used to planning way ahead. It is becoming a well-oiled machine that can be seen in the high quality, predictable releases. The new product engine is ramping with state of the art technology showing up production ready at first release. If it isn't production ready - management will have an orderly one quarter delay, learn from the slip, and reset customer expectations. No one is sitting around worried about losing a job over one incident - rather we strive to be better, better, never best. Calix rewards high performers and when necessary realign those that are underperforming. World class supply chain team that has kept our customers growing during challenging macro events outside of our control. Finally - the culture and mission are 2nd to none. Everyone shares a common purpose - enable our broadband service providers (small and large) to provide best-in-class user experience and be competitive against those that are trying to relegate them to be a dumb internet pipe. We win only when they win. Compare this to the business model of some of our competitors who view the broadband service provider as a means to get access to the end subscriber data for monetization. The data/money grab philosophy is a recipe for a toxic company and Calix has absolutely none of this.

Cons

Some growing pains (which is to be expected with all of the new hires) - specifically managing around 24h time zones of this global team.

5.0
Aug 3, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture, work from anywhere. Rapidly growing. Leadership is very employee friendly. Care about work/life balance. Great benefits and pay.

Cons

My specific department is smaller so the onboarding process is more impromptu than other roles within the org but the team strives to help us much as they can as I learn. Very much a my success is their success mentality.

5.0
Jun 13, 2022
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Pros

Amazing culture, great employees, leaders and executives. Work hard play hard and extremely fast paced.

Cons

Can be a ton of admin work at times but it's manageable.

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