NETGEAR reviews about "manager"

targets are sometimes unrealistic, managmnet amateurs and shortminded. only goal is to increase business and no personal developent

Company culture is horrible. Lay-off happens every once a while. The sales strategy changes all the time. They always hire people to test if the new model works, and are very inpatient. If the new model doesn't work for a few months, they lay off all the people just hired. Severance package is pathetic. They minimize the severance package to allow the management team to freely lay off people at minimal cost. Company makes poor decisions, but innocent employees pay for it. I've seen many good people let go, later, the management team realized the mistake, and then hired less experienced people to fill the positions. It's been sad and horrible. Very unprofessional managers. Most of the managers only care about the employees who are willing to establish personal (beyond professional) relationships with them or who come from the same ethnic groups. That's why if you are a Chinese in Supply Chain, or Indian in IT, or Irish in Finance, or if you go to lunch individually with your boss every day, or carpool with your boss every day, you will be more likely to succeed.

In general, upper-management has been here awhile and it's the same old thing over and over. Promotions are not based on merit but instead given to people who are friends with upper management. Bonus % seems very attractive if it pays out (doesn't happen often). Change here is extremely slow. There have been numerous employee surveys and only minor changes have resulted. Additionally this company is spoon fed everything from the CEO. They outsource damn near everything and as a result product quality has suffered. Product firmware is god awful, I wont even purchase our products at a 50% discount.

- Relaxed environment can be a double edged sword; you may lose career ambition - Relatively low pay compare to similar firms in the area (I would say <50 percentile) - If you are interested in solving interesting engineering problems, this company is not for you. Outsourcing has became a go-to solution for any engineering projects/challenge. All the work left are mostly project/program management stuff

slow promotion which normally takes 4-5 years to reach the next position

Ever changing targets make it difficult to focus on the task at hand. Upper management changes goals before the previously set goals were attainable.

Decision-making is too centralized. Lower level managers have little or no decision-making power. Upper management lacks a culture of innovation. There is too much bureaucracy.

One opinion only matters hence the company is actually extremely thin. Vision is short-term and somehow arbitrary. Lacks channel program ( left to regional managers discretion)