Barracuda Networks Reviews

Pros

- Fun Environment
- Great People
- Lots of great company activities
- Extensive training within sales
- Room for growth

Cons

- The pay is little compared to others in the industry with the same title.
- The staff can be very clicky and gossipy
- The company is still growing and learning so there can tend to be growing pains while they are establishing a solid structure.

Pros

Willing to accept people with little to no experience.
Come in and leave when you please.
Generally little over sight over you. So you can work as you please.
Great place to come to for experience and learn about what you don't want at a company.
Vending machines where everything is 25 cents.
If you bike/car pool / park in street you get a free lunch.

Cons

Its a point of pride with the managers they pay 15% below valley average.
There is no feedback other than the yearly review which they nit pick anything you may have done wrong and do not allow you to explain yourself.
If you get any feedback outside the annual review it means they are mad at you.
The management all depends on your team. On my team the managers are basically useless. They issue tasks then disappear except to show up and throw more work on you or to complain.
Even engineering is a rotating door. They just cannot keep people
Despite what they say there are NO stock options until you have been there several years.
There is no opportunity to move up.
The company is run by the selected few who have been there a long time. Get on the bad side of any of them and your days are numbered. Its always a dance making sure you are in their good graces. Some of these people have very poor outlook on Indian Engineers.
As people are constantly leaving we are constantly understaffed and desperate any time we have a new firmware push.
Managers do not listen to the Quality Assurance Engineers or Developers saying the product is broken or even how long it will take to get stuff fixed.
They have cameras in the office. One of the upper management loves to sit there and watch people in Michigan then call up managers and complain about people that aren't working.
They use man in the middle attacks to stop encrypted info in case you are trying to use encrypted forms of chat

Advice to Senior Management

Just because someone has been there for years it does not mean they know how to manage or should even be managers.

Pros

Totally depends on what team you are in. You may see some good progress in your career if you are in the right team under a right manager.

Cons

The worst company I have ever worked for. Absolutely no respect/trust towards employees. People are so political and cutthroat and they try to let down their employees. They try to dump a lot of work on their employees even for the minimal salary they offer. Please don't waste time in interviewing. If a company is making an offer on the same day of interviewing, that tells how desperate they are in hiring people. It's like bait and switch. Don't fall for it!!!!!

Advice to Senior Management

Managers should learn to be good managers if not best.

Pros

Work with some pretty interesting folks, privately held company so they do what they want and if you happen to be in a management position or an engineer role they take good care of you.

Cons

Lack of career ladder, no matter what is listed in the employee handbook don't be fooled. Barracuda has a rock solid business model but they can continue to rotate in fresh bright tech support folks until they catch on that this isn't going anywhere.

Advice to Senior Management

good luck

Pros

- plenty of work to do, including learning opportunities
- some really good and talented people to work with
- salary okay; probably "good enough" if you're just starting out
- benefits average to slightly sub-par
- flexible hours (which should be the norm in Silicon Valley)
- company is doing well, selling lots of products -- no danger of going OOB

Cons

- sometimes too much work to do, often with not enough resources
- for every good & talented person, there are a couple of dead-weights
- compensation can be as stingy and rare as with many financial things at the company
- no place to sit, no place to park -- both main office locations are full-to-bursting with no plan to deal with it -- what's management thinking?
- privately-held, i.e. no employee stock plan

Advice to Senior Management

Leave your personal projects, home improvement, family business, etc. at home. It has no place in the workplace.

Barracuda isn't a startup anymore.

Pros

More accountability and Hands On experience

Cons

No recognition, less motivation, no work life balance

Advice to Senior Management

They should recognise the efforts of emplyees

Pros

Let's be honest Barracuda makes money. And they give stock options... well stock option. If you stick around forever and smile a lot. If your really good at smiling they'll promote you.

If you are good at your job and for some reason can't get a job elsewhere here in the Valley check then this is a good place to wait.

Really the biggest "Pro" of Barracuda is if you work for another company that they buy out and then can dumb done everything.

Cons

The pay is horrible, there are no real perks, it is a cult of personality much like Apple except without the verve and intellectualism and without the cool new building. We work in a penitentiary. Management is like working for Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Yeah they seem to make money by gambling and not getting caught but you question whether or not they should be driving motor vehicles some time.

We do have plenty of liquor in the office and great equipment to work on except that last part isn't factual. Most competent engineers (and there have been some brilliant ones) are "acquired" from another start-up and then get annoyed and leave. For the most part the talent is marginalized and the bulk are very unskilled at their professions. Very unskilled. Barely script kiddies.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't change. Your making money hand over fist. Just start giving us some of it.

Pros

-Great work atmosphere, casual yet professional
-A lot of growth potential for career
-I am working for a great Manager that supports growth of people on team
-A lot of training available and provided on products, technology and sales
-Fun place to work, and great people to work with

Cons

-Pay and benefits could be improved
-Need more space
-Building gets too cold sometimes
-Hard to find parking spaces sometimes

Advice to Senior Management

Stay open to input and suggestions from staff. Consider improvements in compensation and benefits provided so that employees will feel more value for their work and the service they provide.

Pros

-First job after college, was able to grow from customer services to Sales Management in 6 months.
-A lot of opportunities for growth
-Really nice place to work, people are genuine and really like each other.
-Communication between departments is good, people will help you if you need help with your projects.
-Good and approachable product managers. They will support you all the way in your projects.
-In my case, I got a lot exposure to international sales and channel management.
-In my position, I have a lot of freedom to implement policies or programs for my territory to grow. Management supports me in my decisions.

Cons

-We are losing a lot good people everyday due to salary.
-High turnover
-Medical benefits could be better

Advice to Senior Management

We are losing a lot good people to our competitors due to salary, management needs to review their hiring strategy and compensation.

Pros

Great Exec Team
Direct communication with the CEO
Great communication between Management Team and employees .
Fun Place to work
A company that is growing at a fast pace.

Cons

Need a bigger building as running out of space.
Lack of car parking spaces - this is bveing resolved by renting additional space.

Advice to Senior Management

You have created a sales machine so please keep on doing what you have been doing to help us grow a successful team. Great job :-)