F5

Make some pretty good money. Benefits are pretty solid. The commute in is easy, and the company compensates you for almost the entire cost of commuting. HR and CorpOps are very active in promoting culture and continually enhancing the work environment. Work can be stimulating, depending on who you work with and for.

There are a lot of smart people to chat about various networking things with. Many people have been there 7+ years. I guess that says something about the company in general.

Line management really needs to be connected, or else you get into situations where nobody provides any guidance. It feels like a company full of people with Asperger syndrome. Many engineers with senior titles have just been promoted from the support org; they're not trained engineers.

The office feels like a bank with the outdated padded walls and individual cubes.

Middle management also can stop being so insistent that you be in your chair from 9 to 5. For a place that is seriously limited in office space, they should leverage remote working more often than they do.

I can't speak for upper management much.

Perhaps start focusing more on software and less on hardware.

Hardware will always be needed for the giant service providers, but the rest of the world runs on software.

Middle management needs to collaborate more and plan together to reduce work redundancy between teams. Middle management can also stop micromanaging while they're at it.