Is Equinix a good company to work for?

Equinix has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 3,424 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months. 69% of employees would recommend working at Equinix to a friend and 64% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Equinix have been left by employees working as Intern , Senior Software Engineer and Vice President .

Does Equinix pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Equinix employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Equinix. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Equinix?

69% of Equinix employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Equinix 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Equinix?

Director (45) , Customer Success Manager (43) , Intern (42) , Senior Manager (41) , Manager (40) , Engineer (38) , Data Center Technician (36) , Account Executive (35) , Senior Software Engineer (35) , Project Manager (32) , Software Engineer (31) , IBX Technician III (30) , Senior Account Executive (30) , Staff Software Engineer (29) , Technician (28)

What are the pros of working at Equinix according to real employee reviews?

"company values and culture are great" ((in 358 reviews)); "People are great and fun to work with" ((in 187 reviews)); "Benefits and welfare are good and sufficient" ((in 147 reviews)); "Work life Balance is good!" ((in 114 reviews)); "Great teams to work in and plenty of aspects of the DC operations exposure." ((in 76 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Equinix according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management and some people resistant to change" ((in 111 reviews)); "3. Managers do bias for favorable incompetent employees" ((in 55 reviews)); "Frequent layoffs and reorgs globally" ((in 23 reviews)); "long hours especially challenging at night shift" ((in 20 reviews)); "No career progression at all at least for 6 years." ((in 17 reviews))

What are employees saying about Equinix layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Equinix layoffs and their outlook for job security at Equinix in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Equinix locations?

Redwood City , Sunnyvale , San Jose , Tampa , Ashburn , New York , Dallas , Frisco , Chicago , San Francisco , Los Angeles , Denver , Miami , Redwood Shores , Secaucus , Atlanta , Santa Clara , San Diego , Houston , Austin , El Segundo , Seattle , Culpeper , Washington , Palo Alto , Boston , Foster City , Kansas City , Texas City , Milpitas

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3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(2,316 total reviews)

Adaire Fox-Martin

65% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

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4.0

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Culture & values

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.4

Career opportunities

3.3

Senior management

Equinix has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,316 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Equinix employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews

5.0

Mar 27, 2019

Fantastic Company

Senior marketing manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great culture. Kind, fair people. Trust and good will.

Cons

Long commute from Oakland and fairly important to be onsite.

5.0

Mar 18, 2019

Fantastic place to work

Director

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The culture, vision and strategy make this a great company.

Cons

Technology moves so fast as digital transforms, and it's hard for any company to keep up

5.0

Mar 3, 2019

Great environment and lots of on job learning

Product engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Learning new technology related stuff on your job every day is something you enjoy working in the product engineering team especially when business problems are solved with technical solutions - The feeling is amazing !! Architecture team working on next-gen architectures/technology .. Equinix hired couple of great visionaries in their product Architecture group and implemented great culture of solving complicated problems and knowledge transfer within the team and across the organization .. in last 3 years company has delivered a towards their ultimate vision and on the right track of executing their vision for multi-cloud market.

Cons

Lower employee to contractor ratio, sometimes it is difficult to find quality contract workers

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