F5 reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,972 total reviews)
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Francois Locoh-Donou

81% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

F5 has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,972 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The F5 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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2.0
Mar 31, 2022

stuck in the past in too many ways

Anonymous employee
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Pros

you may get a good manager or good teammates. the company does some D&I messaging. you may get a chance to learn a lot in some roles.

Cons

the cons grew to outweigh the pros by far. reviews on here suspiciously went up by 0.5 stars out of no where. notice all the positive reviews that have very little information in them. dont believe them. extremely low pay across the board for most teams unless youre a manager or above. going against the status quo is often ignored or frowned up. a lot of sr managers have very traditional views about how a company should be run in the bad way. no true milestone rewards unless you work there for 10yrs which shows how little your time is valued. many teams are under resourced which means people get burnt out quickly and then leave, creaing often a long unending cycle. lots of outsourcing to exploit cheap labor. didnt give raises to most ppl during the pandemic except to the top. too much nepotism leading to too many unqualified leaders ruining departments. tries to behave like a startup which doesnt work for a 25+yr old company with over 6000 employees. just means internal systems are messy and lots of instructions arent documented. too many outdated systems and ways of doing things. the list could go on. please do yourself a favor and listen to these words. unless youre getting a rare competitive offer to be a sr mgr or are escaping somewhere even worse to use this place as a stepping stone it isnt worth it.

2.0
Mar 15, 2018

Best avoided

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Pros

Nice views of Elliott Bay. Free beer on Friday.

Cons

F5 is still relying on selling hardware while their customers are ditching hardware and going to the cloud. New CEO is big step down from the charismatic first one. Extremely top-down management structure--leave your ideas at home. Very limited opportunities to change jobs. College degrees not required, so lots of high-school-educated techie types who know IT but nothing else.

2.0
Mar 10, 2018

Technical Program Manager

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Amazing products, good support for them.

Cons

Management. Program management managers do not belong in the positions they are in. They do not want people who can think for themselves, they want people who will shut up and do what they’re told. Almost none of the program management team are 'technical', regardless of their titles.

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