Extreme Networks reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,084 total reviews)
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Ed Meyercord

77% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Extreme Networks has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,084 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Extreme Networks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Jun 23, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone I worked with inter-departmentally was very friendly and helpful, but many mid-level management seemed to have their own hectic schedules, so lots of follow up.

Cons

Some big seats in the company recently freed up, they just restructured their sales department, and had quite a layoff event...so...hopefully they have things under control at this point.

1.0
May 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay and benefits. Snacks. Other than, I can't say much.

Cons

Politics, lack of training, lack of real-world context, no vision, no movement. Not a single person of color or minority is seen in VP ranks. Terrible culture. No support from executive staff and layoffs will continue till Sept 30, 2015, if not more. Just look at the company stock price.

2.0
Mar 11, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I guess the campus in RDU and San Jose are cool. They feed office employees on Wednesdays and generally have a nice work environment. It's to bad the management and work sucks so much

Cons

Over management is a huge problem. In my position I have 7 bosses who often contradict each other. They're also big on wasting time. The ISR team has weekly calls that don't amount to anything. The field only has a small grasp on what is happening with their customers and that information only barely gets passed onto the Inside team. There's a big power struggle going on right now between the old Extreme and old Enterasys folks to see who gets to run the show. With Jeff White coming in and bringing a bunch of his Cisco buddies with him it looks like it's just going to be a Cisco 2.0 if the upgrade were smaller and didn't adequeatly know how to sell things. As an ISR you also won't actually be selling anything. You'll be more of a glorified secretary for the overworked field. Your comp plan is also tied to the field sales so basically you're getting paid (very little) commission from a quota you don't have any control over.

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