Jun 19, 2019
F5 System Engineer reviews
2.5
19% would recommend to a friend
Francois Locoh-Donou
19% approve of CEO
19% positive business outlook
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11 reviews
3.0
Dec 13, 2018
was a good company, but failing quickly
Former employee, more than 10 years
Seattle, WA
Recommend
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Pros
*Excellent* benefits. With the right manager (I had one): decent feedback, comprehensive review cycles (although less frequent than I could wish), a large degree of autonomy.
Cons
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.
5.0
Aug 10, 2018
Good environment, great products, outstanding people.
Current employee, more than 5 years
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros
Great group of team mates. Good support from immediate manager. Solid benefits and pay. Good assistance with learning new technology and training.
Cons
Being assigned additional duties to primary job can impact primary sales responsibility.
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