Ciena Software Developer reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(202 total reviews)
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Gary B. Smith

88% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Ciena with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 202 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Ciena is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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202 reviews
4.0
Apr 15, 2017

Good company

Recommend
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Pros

The people inside ciena are really awesome and have tons of experience. You can learn a lot from them and they are ready to help you learn and deepen your technical skills. The workload is fair.

Cons

I did not find any to be honest. As long as the salary is good for you

5.0
Feb 10, 2017

Software Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Flexible working hours and good employee benefits. Company is very focused on what they do.

Cons

Salaries are kind of low comparing to market standards.

3.0
Nov 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The culture of the company is great! People are nice and have professional attitude. The company has some good packages and benefits.

Cons

The salary is not competetive. And the rewarding and promotion system is very slow. It doesn't matter how hard you work or how much pressure you successfully handle; they make some excuses to not give you a raise and it causes losing motivation after a year or so. On the other hand, it is an excellent place for carefree people who are used to working no more than an hour a day!!! I work about 11 hrs a day handling multiple difficult tasks in my level of experience and they have no other one to replace if I leave the team but they are very hard on me when it comes to promotion. I have no motivation to continue like this after 1.5 yr of working.

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