F5

• Relatively diverse for a tech company.
• Good work/life balance.
• Compensation and benefits are generally good.
• Core ADC market is steadily growing, despite the cloud.

Career prognosis depends on position in the org chart. The higher up you are, the more secure you are. It's full-on Game of Thrones here.

Teams operate independently as silos, without strong PM leadership.

Poor technical planning. Specs are mostly absent or seriously deficient.

Poor learning culture.

Actively outsourcing hundreds of jobs to India/Mexico.

Live your values. Be honest.

I was a fan of the current CEO until the layoffs a couple months ago. I wasn't personally affected, but I know folks that were. The execution was shameful, and they targeted layoffs based on org chart position, as opposed to evaluating skills, performance, or compensation. And just to be clear, most of those positions weren't "eliminated"; they were outsourced out of the US.

Part of my beef with the layoffs is that the CEO was very clear about the India location not being a means for outsourcing US jobs. This turned out to be a lie.