Great place until our new CEO's regime
Great place until our new CEO's regime
Compensation and benefits are great.
It used to be a great place to work until the new CEO took over. He is an absolute jerk. I understand that layoffs happen and even offices closed, but the way Francois did it was extremely disrespectful, cowardly, and hypocritical. We learned we were all being laid off via a company-wide email. An email, really? Then we were told, some of us being there over 10 years, to just clear out within the next couple of days, again very disrespectful. Word on the street is that he was going to close the Lowell office on 9/28 without giving us any notice, but the state of Massachusetts set him straight with their laws. So any severance and notice is due to legal requirements, not from any consideration by F5. Despite all the talk of F5 values and 'we are F5ers,' the CEO and senior management are pretty deplorable human beings. Francois was too cowardly to inform any of us in person but instead sent his lackeys. Had he had any actual morals, he would not sleep at night.
Stop being so hypocritical and practice the supposed F5 values you espouse. There is a way to do layoffs without completely disrespecting people as your pawns.
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Very sharp (smart) HR, brief phone interview. Nice, swift hiring manager, half-hour phone interview. Third step: onsite with engineers, architect, and upper managerial staff. Way nicer than what I expected reading Glassdoor reviews of other sites.
Software Development Engineer Coop
Lowell, Massachusetts, United StatesNovember 1, 2015First round was a phone interview. Easy code correction and some general C/C++, Linux questions. Second round was a group interview with 4 persons. All topics were about your resume and language-related questions. They somehow cared about your netwo
Senior Hardware Engineer
Lowell, Massachusetts, United StatesAugust 1, 2014My sense is that the company is very well liked by the people who work there. Many folks have been with the company a relatively long time. That said, it is not a stagnant place, and the people I interviewed with are top-notch engineers – seriously,
Senior Software Engineer
Lowell, Massachusetts, United StatesAugust 1, 2013Very sharp (smart) HR, brief phone interview. Nice, swift hiring manager, half-hour phone interview. Third step: onsite with engineers, architect, and upper managerial staff. Way nicer than what I expected reading Glassdoor reviews of other sites.
