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Great Market Share, Bad Culture

Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at F5 for 9 years
March 13, 2016
San Jose, California
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

More than 40% market share.

Cons

Ship, ship, ship mentality with crucial quality decisions made by non-technical managers. Their goal is to just keep their superiors happy and only manage up. Such choices are driven by senior leadership (VP level), which is willing to cut any corners to just "win" over other peers in Seattle.

Culture at this place has gone down substantially. Most new hires are from "surrounding" big companies (think networking behemoth), where they can find management that stays quiet and is totally non-ambitious.

Morale is very low. Manager quality is completely dismal. A lot of people have left because they were wronged and did not align with bad decisions.

It doesn't matter how long you work here; you cannot build a career at this place. Instead, go work for another big company that pays better.

Advice to Management

Clean up the incompetent and incapable management. They have made themselves comfortable here by being extremely political. If you lose a lot of talent, F5 won't maintain its leadership in its product line.

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