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Riverbed Technology

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On the downward slide..... - Anonymous employee Riverbed Technology Employee Review

2.0
Jul 4, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Riverbed used to be a great place to work where management appeared to care about the employees.

Cons

Since going private, it's become apparent that the only real concern is for the equity firm to get their money out of the company. Sales are declining, particularly for the core SteelHead products. Management, which now mostly consists of Cisco castoffs, is extremely myopic and although states new directions supporting major partners for managed services, continues to deliver products solely focused on the Enterprise which is in turn causing major revenue shortfalls with those same partners. Recent job actions (RIF) resulted in the loss of good people while many that contribute little to the company were retained.

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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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