Manager, Product Development - Anonymous employee F5 Employee Review

4.0
Jul 2, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Civilized work environment- it's good to work for human beings. A good work-life balance is easy to maintain. People here are actually trying to make things better.

Cons

Waterfall model development rooted in the 70s. Monolithic releases that drag on and on (deathmarch). Upper management in development seems to have their head in the sand. Inadequate resource allocation for test, program management. Etc.

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