Riverbed Technology Software Developer reviews

All is lost now. Almost all the wonderful people quit after it became private. Almost everyone in the company are now new hires. Riverbed used to be know for its people, now its a mess. No stocks/options. The work is terrible. Managers and upper management could not care less. Managers do not have an even little technical knowledge. Talking to them is like talking to HR. Hard workers are not rewarded nor heard. People are least motivated. They have lost market share and competitors are doing much better. The list goes on.

Private companies don't have a good mechanism to issue options or stocks, so the only ones with a share in the profits have been there a couple years. If that share of the company turns out to be a windfall, there could be a divide between the haves and have-nots. IT is actually better at Riverbed than nearly every company I've worked at (6), but it still is tedious. Often the laptops issued to employees are last years models and the support for OS X is pitiful (i.e., still using Office 2012).