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Riverbed Technology

Is this your company?

So many changes, many not for the good. A career stall. - Anonymous employee Riverbed Technology Employee Review

3.0
Apr 21, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Mostly bright, enthusiastic people. As a start up the company had an energy and a dynamism that I've not experienced before. Compensation is above average. Free snacks and drinks.

Cons

The energy and dynamism is now largely gone as the company has expanded. The products are the best, they're also increasingly complex and training of customers / partners hasn't kept pace resulting in customers being unhappy and sales becoming more difficult. Professional services aren't used as much as they should be. Management positions are filled from within, so none of the 1st line of management appear to have significant management experience when they become managers. Some management overly inclined to micromanage. No clear career path, promotions are based on politics more than merit. Moving horizontally is problematic. Some senior management are tempestuous and inapproachable.

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5.0
Jun 7, 2024
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Pros

The people were talented with a really good mentoring and training program. Good benefits and a healthy organization to improve selling services with solid products to enable clients

Cons

There was some financial health issues and growth stunted with people leaving

3.0
Jun 14, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great technology across two platforms. One focused on the original flagship platform, WAN Optimization. The second platform uses the integration of technologies through previous acquisitions to provide a very robust and unified IT observability solution. The SaaS version of the latter has finally achieved FedRAMP accreditation which was sorely need for U.S. Federal sales.

Cons

I left a couple of years ago due to new leadership and it's deaf ear to the then federal sales team and needs to achieve sales goals without having Riverbed SaaS platform accredited to operate on U.S. Federal Government networks.

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