F5 reviews

-The new CEO (Francois) is doing to F5 what he did to his last company (Ciena)...cutting budget, laying off entire offices and outsourcing to non US locations, cutting benefits, destroying morale. This new CEO also changed our company values from being based on work ethic/being good people to our new values about money/speed -The HR department is a joke. Remote offices dont even have HR reps. I've been groped, harassed, hassled because of my gender and age -Remote employees are scoffed at, and you will only be able to move up if you work in/relocate to the HQ office in Seattle - Recent implementation of doomed projects (oracle based systems) where failure is catastrophic -Useless/brainless middle management and uncaring higher ups (who all seem to have absolutely no employee loyalty) -Slackers who suck up to higher ups advance in position, while the actual honest/hard working employees doing all the work are left in the dust I have been with F5 for over 10 years. When I started here (under previous CEO, John McAdams), the company *WAS* incredible. It was my dream job...now 10 years later I cant believe this is the same company. F5 went from a caring honest company to a money obsessed monster ran by heartless robots whos only concern is their own insanely high paycheck. Its unfortunate that despite our company more than exceeding our monitary goals each QTR, emloyees have to sit by and watch layoff after layoff of great people and continue to see the slashing of budget and benefits left and right. If you have any integrity, I would not recommend working for this company...I can no longer sit by and watch this company run its employees into the ground and will be willingly leaving my decade career behind. The stress is too much to bear...

* Career prognosis depends on position in org chart. The higher up you are, the more secure you are. It's full on Game of Thrones here. * Teams operate independently as silos, without strong PM leadership * Poor technical planning. Specs are mostly absent or seriously deficient. * Poor learning culture * Actively outsourcing hundreds of jobs to India/Mexico