Great long term career opportunity - Embedded Software Engineer Ciena Employee Review

5.0
Dec 26, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stimulating. They'll use you to your full potential. Nice, friendly and understanding managers. Competitive pay. Internal learning and training platform with courses specific to Ciena product to help you get started. Even though it's hard to get started, your whole team will support you and your manager will slowly ramp up your work as you get better. Ciena really values its employees, because they are really hard to replace. Ciena has a really complex product that requires a lot of inside knowledge. It's hard for them to find new employees, so they give good opportunities for employees to move to different teams and products so they don't lose them.

Cons

Mandatory DEI training. Really steep learning curve of knowledge specific to Ciena. You'll learn a lot of things that won't be of any help at any of your future jobs outside of Ciena.

avatar
Ciena Response
3y
Thanks for this constructive feedback! We appreciate your review and are striving to create an even better benefits and pay package. If you'd like to continue the conversation please get in touch at cienafeedback@ciena.com.

Explore other reviews about Ciena

5.0
Jul 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people who work well together across company silos. Good pay, especially with stock performing well.

Cons

Extremely low attrition (~2% annually) leaves a workforce that is very experienced at Ciena. Unfortunately, this means high resistance to change and low awareness of industry best practices. Low attrition also leads to minimal opportunities for job growth.

3.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work life balance, good environment

Cons

Pay is not competitive, very less stock options.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All