No pain , no gain - Anonymous employee F5 Employee Review

2.0
Aug 15, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You will have a lot of technical exposure and take away is political skills. You will learn patient.

Cons

A hostile working environment with bad politic to manipulate you. for example; they will ask you to close 2 cases every day even though it does not state in your employment contract initially. If you can't close 2 cases every day, your immediate boss will threaten or insult you. No equal opportunity. Ready to face for emotional depression and insomnia. Customer support engineers are Guinea pigs.

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