Xyratex Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Xyratex full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great benefits, great people, great location, great PTO vacation schedule, supportive management

Cons – Heavy workload for operators, imbalance if work and personal time, several layoffs.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Xyratex

Pros – - great technology
- business has economies of scale to leverage
- blue chip customers
- good direct management
- talented recent hires

Cons – - limited financial upside opportunities
- does not invest in internal IT (7 year old email system!)
- not a fun or cool place to work
- executives not accountable for product slippage or deficiencies
- UK based company does not have Silicon Valley drive!

Advice to Senior Management – Hold senior executives accountable for their deliverables.
Staff needs motivation, limited visibility of management does not help the situation. There is hard work ahead to reach the next level of success and there is little drive from management to motivate staff to go the extra mile.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Xyratex full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – In general the people are great and there is a determination to get products out and 'do the right thing'.
Having been in the company a long time I can honestly say I've always been keen to get on with the job and never dreaded going into work.

Cons – The company hasn't really matured from the small company it once was, fire-fighting seems to be the preferred operating method and there is very little progress in process improvement (or creation in some cases)
The company is becoming increasingly silo-ed with fewer capable leaders in the teams so there's greater reliance on a small number of people to hold everything together
Any career development you do will be on your own and you may not see any pay-rise for promotions or greater responsibility. If you are good your pay will fall behind your performance.

Advice to Senior Management – Make some meaningful changes to bring the workings of the company under-control - small steps at first, stop trying to implement the latest buzz-words when the basics aren't right, get the foundations sorted before trying to build the house.

Control change within the company. There is too much, too frequently and it is almost exclusively superficial with very little impact.

Finally - look after your top performing staff before they all leave.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Xyratex full-time for less than a year

Pros – - lots of natural light
- Great group of employees, each very talented
- Working on rebranding the company, and migrating company to a software company from hardware
- Downtown Kitchener location, in the heart of the city
- Lots of interesting technologies
- Paid parking ( its downtown )
- 3 min walk to bus station, right next to city hall

Cons – - Still pretty new so lots of areas of growth
- Distributed team, but improving as this office is growing

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the direction and grown towards a software model

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Xyratex full-time for less than a year

Pros – Downtown location
Nice open concept office with lots of windows!
Amazing team
Exciting projects with innovation and creativity
Agile environment
Working on some really cool code that will be utilized across the company
Helping to drive company direction

Cons – Parking is a bit far

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Xyratex full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great colleagues.
Good direct management.
Investing in new technology at last.

Cons – A dull working environment, could do with an injection of excitement.
Long hours / heavy workload.

Advice to Senior Management – None.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Interesting, cutting edge enterprise software and hardware.

Cons – After several public misses, things are rather stressful.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Xyratex

Pros – Competitive pay, good work life balance, great benefits, great people, interesting product, global, solid training, opportunity for growth and development.

Cons – Sometimes it seems the company is a little resistant to change, they want to keep things as they are. Makes it hard to get to the next level or make things happen.

Advice to Senior Management – Open up to change, you have a lot of smart people working for the company with great ideas and experience that want to make a difference.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend