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Great Company, shame about support - Senior Escalation Engineer Riverbed Technology Employee Review

1.0
Dec 12, 2012
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Pros

- Good basic salary compared to other similar jobs in the market - no requirements for extended hours or overtime - Great team of people

Cons

- no incentives to over-perform - Annual reviews have no reflection on your performance for the past year. - zero incentives to work weekends and public holidays to cover illness, shortages or shifts. - Low yearly bonus -> RSU's which vest over 4 years but the actual amount of RSU's awarded equate to a extremely small percentage bonus compared to year base salary. - Lower level management have no idea how to actually manage, support and develop their staff - Management perform no consultation and discussion with engineers in basic team related decisions. - Senior management and directors have a delusional view of running a support organization with no structure in terms of L2 and L3 support staff. All Escalation Engineers perform a L2 and L3 function in a flat structure. - Politics seems to be the only method to be promoted rather then hard work and performing above and beyond. - No improvement in basic pay or conditions when promoted to Senior Escalation Engineer vs a regular Escalation Engineer

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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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