F5 Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.6

80% would recommend to a friend

(117 total reviews)
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Francois Locoh-Donou

85% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated F5 with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 117 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. F5 is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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117 reviews
3.0
Nov 3, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Good salary for freshers and new hires - Very good work life balance - Plenty of leaves - Free lunch and snacks - People are good

Cons

- Legacy tech stacks - No learning and growth - No career progression - No merit based promotion, you need to complete n number of years to get promoted, no matter how well you have performed over the year - Frequently changing policies are no more employee centric (like shifting of quarterly bonus to annually) - Managers play game but you won't notice. They are well trained to manipulate employees in diplomatic way - Frequent layoffs (includes high performers too) - Plenty of leaves, but people are not taking (management should motivate to take off) - People showing off their work by being active on teams and git on weekends and during late nights (honestly, we don't have that much work) - Managers expecting (though not forcing) everyone to join late night meetings (even if we are optional)

4.0
Aug 22, 2025

Great place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1) great work life balance 2) employee respect 3) good culture

Cons

1) recent puzzling layoffs 2) seems little lack of strong clarity on the product line and sticking to it . Little more priority shifts 3) too much women centric culture specially in Hyderabad. Making opposite gender uncomfortable by repeated heightening of the context throughout the years

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