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Worse place to work for

Senior Automation Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at F5 for 1 year
April 21, 2021
Norfolk, Virginia
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Good people all around to work with.

Cons

Trying hard to move to the cloud and containers but has no idea what they are doing.

Lackluster documentation.

Old-fashioned.

Loves to reinvent the wheel. They literally create products that they already own. For example, I was on a project where NGINX+ could have been used, but they went out to their dev teams to develop something similar to it. They did it, and the product sucks.

Training on "new" tech sucks.

Tech stack sucks.

Support engineers have no idea how to support the new products they have or are building. Unfortunately for these folks, that's the future.

LONG working hours during COVID - these guys don't care about you!

Advice to Management

Do a better job on product development and management.

Train your employees, contractors, and vendors adequately to support your new tech stack.

Practice more empathy for your employees. Don’t overwork them to death during a pandemic.

Don’t be bigger idiots.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
1.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
5.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
1.0
Senior Management
1.0

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