Is Calix a good company to work for?

Calix has an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5, based on over 1,196 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months. 91% of employees would recommend working at Calix to a friend and 91% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Calix have been left by employees working as Senior Solutions Engineer , Customer Success Manager and Customer Operations Representative .

Does Calix pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Calix employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.5 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Calix. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Calix?

91% of Calix employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Calix 4.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.5 for culture and values and 4.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Calix?

Staff Software Engineer (33) , Principal Software Engineer (26) , Software Engineer (26) , Sales (23) , Senior Software Engineer (21) , Director (20) , Senior Manager (19) , Senior Solutions Engineer (18) , Regional Sales Manager (17) , Customer Success Manager (15) , Systems Engineer (13) , Manager (12) , Sales Manager (12) , Customer Operations Representative (11) , Sales Engineer (11)

What are the pros of working at Calix according to real employee reviews?

"great benefits and share options" ((in 114 reviews)); "Great people to work with and good products." ((in 92 reviews)); "I don't feel there's enough I can say about this company and the great leadership." ((in 78 reviews)); "Good work life balance and can work remotely" ((in 53 reviews)); "Work from home is the best in Calix." ((in 39 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Calix according to real employee reviews?

"Sudden layoffs with little warnings, even for high performers" ((in 17 reviews)); "Long hiring process." ((in 5 reviews))

What are employees saying about Calix layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Calix layoffs and their outlook for job security at Calix in 2026.

What Calix locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Atlanta , Minneapolis , Dallas , Nashville , San Francisco , Boston , Denver , San Jose , New York , Chicago

Calix reviews

4.5

91% would recommend to a friend

(1,130 total reviews)

Michael Weening

93% approve of CEO

91% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.5

Culture & values

4.5

Diversity & inclusion

4.5

Compensation and benefits

4.4

Work/Life balance

4.3

Senior management

4.3

Career opportunities

Calix has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,130 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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1K reviews

2.0

Oct 1, 2017

Awful management culture

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great people to work with.

Cons

Hi level management is totally clueless and reckless (an awful combination). They are driving a successful company to the ruins. Not sure how much longer the company will stay afloat.

Calix Response

7y

We value your constructive feedback on the "pros" and the "cons" in your view. There are always areas to work and improve on as a company drives for improvement and efficiencies while leveraging awesome people skills and experience and systems/processes. Thank you for your contribution to Calix and please engage in our lunches and breakfast opportunities to meet with peers, leaders and our CEO on all details of the company.

2.0

Apr 1, 2016

It is a myth how this company is still around

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

free soda and ping pong.

Cons

Too many. Things started going all the way south after they introduced the 'new' managment in San Jose three years ago, seriously, what can you expect when your top R&D management is specialized at 'Reconstructing Oragnization'? They hired so many of their buddies with nothing to do but talking BS. Good people start to leave, and they just fill the positions with people with inferior skills with higher titles. Engineers are trying all sorts of fancy things just to put hot words in their resume for their next job, management are doing all the 'innovative' moves to 'motivate' people, such as cut all engineer's bonus to half in the name of encouraging better performance.

4.0

Jan 23, 2015

Successful!

Account manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Customer and solutions driven company with a solid vision and plan to be successful. They challenge and treat their employees well. They have a good benefits program.

Cons

A change in HR Exec staff about 1.5 years ago caused a change in the culture from one of open door and communication to one of political and personal. The Exec HR staff changed in Q4 2015 and I'm optimistic that the new leadership will institute a positive non-political environment.

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