F5

The culture at F5 is one of the best I have seen in my experience of jobs. The CEO is amazing.

The Global Solutions Architects in the pre-sales role assist the account teams in the field, other solutions engineers in the field, and other solution architects tied to customers. We are all here to help close revenue.

As a GSA, you can define your own tasks or projects in order to help the field close business. Super exciting and super challenging! It keeps you busy!

Career development is DEFINITELY a plus, and management helps a TON there.

Typical company internal conflicts here and there, red tape to get things done like other companies, inside struggles depending on the team in which you belong and partnering teams. But overall, everyone is helping everyone on my team and the surrounding teams.

With the recent acquisitions, it would be great to see an accelerated vision that combines all the great technology into an easy-to-consume "one console" type platform for customers. This will also make it easier for the sales teams to sell the right solutions to the customer based on customer requirements and challenges.

This is easier said than done, and I can see the company working towards this goal. However, there are still many product teams that are siloed and only focus on their own product-specific features rather than the collective solution of the entire platform.

The product teams should have more collaboration in terms of defining overall solutions for customers rather than producing a particular feature for a particular platform.