Possibly one of THE worst companies i had misfortune to work for
Pros
Nice new multi million HQ building in Santa Clara Free Pete's Coffee Multicultural work environment Number of super nice people Total chaos allowing for easy hiding
Cons
As it has been said MANY times before here on Glassdoor - Management IS the problem. Or rather lack of thereof. It's almost (Or perhaps maybe exactly so) if they hire people on the favor basis to collect paycheck and do very little. In a number of years i had been with this company i had seen absolute minimal if ANY improvement. People in EVERY department keep saying same thing - How unhappy they are with the way things are done. Sure, those might be different things but the "Song" is always same. Yet, higher management is oblivious. I have not seen any one person who is not a VP to get a real promotion. Sure very few people moved to like a Team Lead but i have not seen anyone to get promoted in a true sense. Unless they already have VP or above title, they had have a few of those promoted to SR or Executive VP, yes. But yet not a single person on my team had a promotion. Actually, in all the years being there my job functions did not change at all and i had been doing exactly same (Often totally pointless as at the end no one cared) things as i was when started with absolutely no outlook at moving up. Career? I do not think so! Just a job. And speaking of a job. Do you like to work in a sweat-shop? In a place with no moral values? Company that cares none for you? Where there are no policies and person who can whine louder gets what they want? Organization where unless someone above you says same thing you might be saying for years, no one even notices? Corporation that is so riddled with "Power Silos" and "Information Blackholes" that simplest thing can easily turn into huge disaster, and none still care as long as there is a way to point to someone else? Enjoy a place where others you depend on for YOUR success do very little or procrastinate to the absolute last second and no argument you bring up seems to register? Where management is so unqualified that only other, higher up, management that is evidently "Blind" could possibly bring them onboard? Well, if so than apply to work at GF and best of luck. Yet in words of great Mr.T - "I pitty the fool!"
