Brocade Communications Reviews

Pros

Brocade has a beautiful campus, airy offices, flexible hours, and open communication among workers. Everyone was very friendly and pro-Brocade.

Cons

Movement within the company seems a little restricted. Atmosphere, while comfortable was a little dull. Overall, nothing too bad about working there, but nothing extraordinary.

Advice to Senior Management

Brocade has a good product and the company has talented employees, but the Brocade name and image needs to be stronger.

Pros

Cushy job, no deadlines.
No accountability

Cons

Politics at every level
No fairness

Pros

Pay master, good benefits, excellent development processes in place

Cons

Company strategies are not strong enough and seems like the vision is missing

Advice to Senior Management

Need to provide a very good individual career path (technical or managerial) to retain top talents

Pros

Energetic company at the top of its game; top notch people to be around and to collaborate with; efforts reconized.

Cons

Lots of dependence on individual effort; teamwork skills being developed, but not quite there yet. Fluid industry with lots of takeovers and consolidations.

Pros

Team effort , willingness to help out across the company provided you stay within the segemented groups, OEM or channel. Product management and marketing used to have some great teams who were always willing to step up to the plate and help.
Great intern and college hire program almost to a fault. Visiting the corp.office can make you feel like you are on a college campus. However Brocade does a good job of getting some very good talent from this on-going program.

Cons

Ego growing attitudes of some recently promoted/ hired managers.
Channel and OEM business conflicts.
Remote offices can feel alienated at times.
 Still a good ole boys attitude in many areas across the country even if you are male and you can hold your own on sports conversations. It is still who you know and how much of a buddy you are.

Pros

process oriented work enviornment, talented engineers

Cons

tight shedules, not using latest technologies,

Advice to Senior Management

use latest technologies

Pros

Great place to work. Great work life balance. Fair. Good pay.

Cons

Advancement is slow. Not much more to say.

Pros

Excellent opportunity to excel and be fairly compensated for your efforts if successful

Cons

Frequent reorgs along with strategy changes

Advice to Senior Management

Fully integrate the sales force(s) of both SAN & IP into a single, territory-based unified sales force.

Pros

Great place to learn/grow your skills in a variety of fields

Cons

Will have to agressively negotiate for pay

Pros

flexible hours
good technology to work on

Cons

no open communication with employees from the top management

Advice to Senior Management

Be more open and be fail in compensation.