Citrix Systems Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – I had free time to spend with my family and the work pressure was low.

Cons – The work was not too exciting. I had to move out an year after I joined

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems

Pros – Good environment, and vision. Potential for growth.

Cons – Low base salary compared to industry standard.

Advice to Senior Management – Be accommodating to employees and not look at them as if they were a number.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – avg company...name is good for the worldd.

Cons – once you are in is not that great. No work ethics. People here do shout and yell...higher management and HR does not care...Very Selfish Corporate.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Fairly relaxed company. Friendly company, especially within engineering. Not a dog eat dog culture. Have acquired several very good companies with intelligent people and great products. Slightly above average at integrating acquisitions.

Cons – Company run by Sales and not by the CEO. A Florida boys network. Same Florida cronies alternate positions at the exec level. Company is sales and marketing driven. Not product oriented and hence all organically created products are complex and lack quality. Product managers of non-acquired products (organic products) are very poor, especially at the vp and sr dir level. there are lots of mediocre talent. Upper management is poor. Citrix is unable to attract good talent. this is especially true at senior management level. Any good talent has come in through acquisitions, but most leave as soon as their golden handcuffs come off. Lots of favoritism with existing poor managers given preferential treatment (leading to many junior VPs) over newly acquired talent with proven track records. Salaries are poor compared to the rest of the valley. This is partly due to it being a Florida company which doesn't understand the valley situation.

Advice to Senior Management – Get some!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – A leader in very unique technologies.

Cons – Technology is constantly being updated and expanding into new territories, yet the company kept reducing and eliminating training. As engineers were expected to know more and more, they were trained less and less. Unless you enjoy spending your nights and weekends training yourself to stay up to speed, avoid working for this company.

Advice to Senior Management – Train your employees on the new technology you develop.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – It's a great job if you have never worked in the tech industry in Silicon Valley. Salary and benefits are decent for the Bay Area.

Cons – Much of the upper level management is convinced that they know the only way to develop software, and that there is a Citrix way, and it is the best way. I would point out their recent release record as evidence to the contrary.

Advice to Senior Management – You should pay attention to the attrition in the Santa Clara location. Most people are leaving because they are fed up with the management in Fort Lauderdale.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems

Pros – Always proud to work for Citrix, they have a good name and the management at the top is good. The product is rock solid and easy to sell. Engineering backs up the field. If needed, there is a good life/work balance and the benefits seemed pretty good at the time.

Cons – Local management can be pretty horrible, it all depends on whom you report to. At some places managers can yell and it is all about making money. Your past performance has no baring on how you will be treated in the future.

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems

Pros – - Good worklife balance
- Laid back culture
- Okay salaries

Cons – - Absolutely no career growth
- Too much of favouritism and politics
- Poor quality low/mid/senior management

Advice to Senior Management – Have a tab on favoritism..the Bi annual promotions can be a good yard stick..there is absolutely no reward for hardwork anymore..

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems

Pros – 20 days PTO
Energetic environment conducive to hard work (great till you realize that even as they forward you recognition received from customers, management just doesn't care; they throw it back in your teeth, asking you what it's worth in money)

Cons – Career advancement - soon after I joined, the old job description was rendered invalid because of a re-org; three years later, another re-org - but still no job description on the intranet for my job, or the next step in the career ladder.

Promotions - far from rewarding good, hard work (that had quadrupled in 3 years), management was so slow in hiring additional staff that the team became a bottleneck; instead of the team growing, and members growing with it, the team is on course for getting scratched while the departments we serviced are creating mini-teams of their own.

Training - manager told superior he was short-staffed, couldn't afford to let staff go for training. No training in 2010, even though the topic was brought up on multiple occasions.

NOT a place for work-life balance (but then, it's Operations) - I didn't mind that, but now it's like they took some of my best years, with nothing in return.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't shrug off your responsibility for staff under a 'bad manager'.
(Mark Templeton had made the comment that 'bad managers' can't be avoided)

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems

Pros – decent pay and benefits, smart people, depending on location.

Cons – inadequate communication among groups, poor cooperation and sometimes low quality work from some groups, turf battles and politics everywhere, particularly in middle management.

the comment from the Bangalore guy about "politics in the US" is ridiculous. it's the reverse view here. evidence of the communication problems.

Advice to Senior Management – integrate your groups faster. light a fire among the retirees in Florida. Ditch your HR department entirely, followed soon after by your IT group.