Company is looking for the right strategy - Anonymous employee F5 Employee Review

3.0
Jun 18, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good legacy products keeping the major market share, outstanding benefits, motivated engineering staff.

Cons

No clear strategy for the future (or at least poorly communicated), insufficient professional level in certain areas/groups, lack of clear and robust development processes, collaboration tools are below industry standards, growing amount of the politics. The development force is severely understaffed which brings the slow pace of addressing important issues.

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