F5 reviews

Management seems to have enormous latitude (limited HR oversight) in deciding how to treat employees. If a manager decides he or she doesn't like you, you're toast, and no one can, or perhaps will, intervene on your behalf. Sounds simple, right - just stay on your mgr's good side. Not so fast. It can be anything, even a rumor or unverified innuendo about you that tips the scale toward getting on a "list". I got on such a list because of something others have stated - limited growth opportunity. If you ask for a promotion or even movement within F5, that can (it was for me) enough to turn you into a pariah. And no one will help. I'm leaving after five years because I can't think of anything else to do. And whatever happened to the previously good work/life balance?

All Network Support Engineers must work at the downtown office. No work from home allowed. Pay is competitive, but on the low side for the cost of living in Seattle.