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Riverbed Technology Software Developer reviews

4.0

97% would recommend to a friend

(23 total reviews)
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Dave Donatelli

97% approve of CEO

97% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Riverbed Technology with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 23 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Riverbed Technology is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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23 reviews
1.0
Feb 21, 2016
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Pros

They have good set of customers. Their old products are good which are still making money.

Cons

It had a great culture once upon a time. All is lost now. The wan optimization market is now saturated, and they do not have a clear strategy. It all started falling apart last year when it went private and laid off 10-15% of its workforce. After all this, people lost confidence and almost all the people that made the company once great left. It all happened within an year. Now they have hired too many people in a short amount of time without proper screening, to fill the vacated positions in a hurry, it seemed scary actually. Lot of people managers who do not have an much technical knowledge have sprung. Micro management and politics rule. Upper management does not care. It is hence now a place of lots of talkers and no doers. I hate to say all this, since it was one of the best places I worked, now falling apart so badly and so quickly. STAY AWAY!

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Riverbed Technology Response
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Though Riverbed started out as the pioneer and leader in WAN optimization, we have expanded from a single-product company to a multi-product company and are now continuing to grow and expand into SD-WAN, one of the fastest growing markets in tech history, which Gartner expects to expand from 1% of enterprises today to 30% of enterprises within three years that “will use SD-WAN products in all of their branch offices.” To gauge our worldwide employee satisfaction, Riverbed conducted a confidential survey in late 2015. The full details and results were shared with our 2,000+ employees in the interest of full company transparency. In brief, the survey feedback from our active employees is that they are pleased with the company’s direction, confident in the company’s recent success, long-term future, compensation structure, and management leadership. Riverbed employees are focused on providing solutions to application, network, and branch performance problems, as part of an overall platform that provides customers with a software-defined architecture for digital transformation. Riverbed is considered “the billion dollar startup” with real revenue over $1B USD, top employee compensation and significant 2016 hiring in more than 20 countries all to meet the demands of our ever-growing customer base. We invite you to check out other Glassdoor reviews and our careers at www.riverbed.com – this is a great time to join the Riverbed team.
4.0
Sep 26, 2015

Riverbed

Recommend
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Pros

awesome company to work, there is room to learn and practice

Cons

can be difficult to balance work & training

4.0
Apr 28, 2014

Awesome place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Work is really good. Hiring process is good so you can get good co-workers.

Cons

No Bonus at all. Management should start looking into this.

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