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Blue Coat Systems

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Great technical experience if you can put up with politics and management inclined to favoritism - Senior QA Engineer Blue Coat Systems Employee Review

2.0
Jul 29, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Great technical experience and exposure lot of learning and contribution. peers are helpful. Somewhat brand recognition in industry. Extensive labs

Cons

Politics lots and lots of it if you are good at it this is the place to be. There is no LIFE WORK balance you are treated as slaves with 60 -70+ hours avg work week. Startup environment without the potential. Favoritism is like no tomorrow. If you are hard working your work will be recognized for sure but that's mostly verbally and when it comes to anything else favoritism kicks in. Benefits are bad and RSUs are a joke. All the real recognition and promotion/opportunities are for ppl who have time for politics not for ppl working with their blood and sweat.

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