F5 reviews

Increasingly non-technical middle- and upper-management. Company is a walking corpse unless it can figure out relevancy in the cloud world. IT organization has excellent end-user services but is otherwise out of the stone age and the entire upper management including the CIO (Tony) needs to be replaced with people who have a modern vision and who actually understand networking, serverless, cloud, and other modern concepts. The new CISO, Mary, is an empty suit. IT has a slavish attachment to Microsoft/Azure, building servers, on-premises or slightly hybrid vs pure cloud, and mostly just wants to preserve legacy skillsets or offshore to cheap Indian employees as fast as possible. Marketing is seemingly oblivious to irrelevancy of current offerings in the cloud world; PD is aware but 3-4 years behind the curve. Sales is not well-positioned to tackle the new world as it emerges (and might get entirely left behind). F5 is becoming an Office / Office Space / Dilbert company.

Smart team-players who are disappearing every day. Meetings are long because people want to be 'visible' by asking questions for things they should know, or showing off their 'knowledge'. Management rewards those 'visible' people and calls them leaders, while the real workers are ignored and passed over for promotions. Older people are now being ignored while the focus is on bringing in junior employees. Ageism, I think it's called. Francois and his new senior staff are leading with sticks and constantly saying 'this is going to be a lot of hard work'. We were working hard before you got here. All old senior staff and VPs retired to 'spend more time with their families' that included kids who are off in college.