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Riverbed Technology

Is this your company?

Company not gonna survive till end of 2020, get the hell out everyone! - Software Development Engineer Riverbed Technology Employee Review

1.0
Jun 9, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

*Work life balance. * Work from home. * Can slack off pretty bad and no one gonna tell you anything. * No accountability so if your looking for a paycheck without much(sometimes any) effort this is a really good company. * Good PTO. * APM product doing good and is probably only saving grace.

Cons

* Below market pay, no bonus, worthless stock. * Massive layoff recently (~200 people, >10% of workforce). Rumor has it more are coming. * Market has pivoted. WAN opt is ancient in current cloud environment. * Biggest revenue generator SteelHead sales are dropping like dead fly. * Not even in top 5 in SDWAN market. * No vision by management starting from CEO. He's a dishonest person who bullshits(tried to discredit recent Bloomberg report) and fools own employees. What can you expect from a Brit anyways. * Too many and I really really mean TOO MANY WEAK Managers, Senior Managers, Directors, Senior Directors, VPs. Too much crap that they spew out on a daily basis. * Product delivery schedules slip massively(6-8 months!) but no one BATS AN EYELID. * Company has lot of debt to pay as well detailed in a recent Bloomberg article. Just google it. 22% yield on unsecured note(yep 22%!), CCC rating on notes by ratings agency which is practically junk. * Total lack of product management. Have seen a lot of them browsing jobs on LinkedIn. * SVPs have been given instructions to cut costs desperately. * Too many housewives running the show and collecting comfortable paychecks. Some of them have been with company with more than 8-10 years and would be hard pressed to find any low skilled job outside(may be data entry). A lot of them come to office to vent out about their family lives(kids schools, in-laws, vacations, just more stupid stuff) daily, non-stop and never get tired.

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5.0
Jun 7, 2024
Recommend
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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
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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