F5 reviews

3.8

73% would recommend to a friend

(1,975 total reviews)
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Francois Locoh-Donou

79% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

F5 has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,975 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
Apr 16, 2016

Not many opportunities for advancement, or even lateral moves...

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Pros

Good medical benefits. Nice view of Elliott Bay.

Cons

Not much opportunity to grow or move up. Applying for another job in the company can get you branded as "disloyal" to your "team" and damage your career. (It happened to me, which is why I'm back at Microsoft now.) Weak manager ranks. You won't be working with the best and the brightest. Retired CEO had to return when his replacement was fired by the board of directors. F5 is not investing in infrastructure, software, facilities. A significant percentage of employees don't have university degrees.; you'll be working with trade school types. F5 technology is still on premises when everyone is moving to the cloud. Confused product portfolio and roadmap.

5.0
Apr 14, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Overall culture of the company is great compared to some other bigger companies in Bay Area. Has to do a lot with company headquarters being in Seattle. No typical Bay Area politics or BS. People obey what they say and discuss issues upfront. Company is doing great projects to improve its stake in security and analytics market. Work life balance is good. Can get a little busy during development phase of release which is pretty standard anywhere else.

Cons

No lunch provided on site but kitchen all fully stocked on snacks and drinks. This will save company a lot of lunch hrs. Need more office space as a lot of people are getting hired lately.

1.0
Apr 14, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome benefits and compensation hands down. Cool solutions via their load balancer technology. Flexible scheduling and vacation. If you sell enough, you'll get to go on company-paid excursions.

Cons

1. Don't be fooled...it's just a load balancer but they are the cadillac of ADCs. 2. Sales Engineering Management is spineless. They are more worried about their position and compensation. They only take care of the sales reps. And sales reps love this. That's because they are the ones (in their minds) who brings in business. Talented engineers (perhaps like me) have left for Palo Alto Networks as a result. And what you'll get is more stupidity walking in the door in the form of unqualified sales reps and or engineers who are over their heads. 3. You can be the best Sales engineer but if you don't agree with odd duck sales reps who occasionally brings in their numbers by being dishonest to the customer...you are gonna eventually leave. Let's be clear, F5 sells itself and yet some believe they are the greatest things since the creation of the iPhone. F5 can do away with the sale rep in certain situations since the SE is doing all the work including the quoting, collection of POs and updating salesforce. It's not rocket science. From a sales perspective, find out who you will be supporting, ask customers off the record about how they view F5's Sales team if you are thinking about joining the company. If you have to support a group of sales reps over the age of 50 and have a background in storage...RUN! They'll most likely have a commodity-based mindset and will make you dumber by the minute from a technical standpoint. You'll be chasing deals you should have no business in. In the end you will be babysitting them and regret it. It may not be politically correct but its the truth.

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