F5 reviews

Company is very late the the cloud market and playing catch up. Virtual edition of Big IP was released a few years ago but should be been released 6 years ago during the cloud boom The current Seattle commute sucks if you’re farther south than Renton or farther north than North Gate. Also for NSE 2 role there is no current work from home option. Pay isn’t good for current Seattle housing/rental market if you want to support a family with 1 earner. Very little openings to advance at the company to tier 3 (engineering). It seems they are choosy on filling those very limited slots. Recently an entire east coast support office (300 employees or so) got laid off. And a new office in Mexico opened, makes sense because cheaper wages... they told us not to worry about our jobs but I’m skeptical. Support policies make it difficult to say no kindly to some very pushy and demanding customers that expect much more than they pay for. Consulting still has huge communication gaps with support, especially for large unsupported super custom setups that are essentially a giant coding project. Yet customers expect to call support and get it fixed free..

Most experience and talent is concentrated in the satellite sites. The talent in the Seattle/Bellevue area is diluted by other, local High-Tech companies. Additionally, there is a people-pleasing culture in Washington that is easily misread by no-nonsense New Englanders, making East Coast to West Coast relationships tricky.