Brocade Communications Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Brocade Communications full-time

Pros – Good Opportunities if you want to learn. You just need to grab it. Employees are generally good and talented and thus is benificial for your own growth as you tend to learn from them.

Cons – Compensation not that good.
Quick release cycles, Work/Life Balance...Politics at higher management but I guess that is everywhere so can't do much.

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

Former Employee – worked at Brocade Communications full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great manager and co-workers, great products and technology innovation

Cons – sometimes made decision that didn't make sense, alway perceived as a company that could be purchased

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the Sales and Engineers in the field, they have a pulse on what the customers are looking for

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

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

Pros – Brocade is a good place to start a career in networking or storage area networking. It has good benefits also.

Cons – In Brocade, it is hard to change groups to carve out your own path towards career progress. You need to have really good contacts to get ahead of competition.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Interesting new technology and leading storage network equipment.

Cons – Compnay culture is oriented to the SAN business and will take sometime to re-adjust.

Advice to Senior Management – Shake up the old management structures and inject fresh blood..!

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

Former Employee – worked at Brocade Communications full-time for more than a year

Pros – High Salary/Compensation
Good facility such as gym and cafeteria

Cons – 1. Foundry side of the product acquisition is taking the company down , poor execution of the product development and poor quality of the product and lack of leadership/vision is taking down the company business and future growth prospects.
2. Employee are expected to work hard even come on weekends.
3. No work/life balance
4. Not much growth opportunity and office politics by managers
5. Engineers are not given much due importance/respect as compared to managers which are non-technical.

Advice to Senior Management – be innovative or perish

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

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

Pros – Brocade Communications is a GREAT company to work for, especially for college grads. Great place to get your feet wet and lots of opportunity for Growth.

Cons – There are some managers that can be stuck in old traditional ways from former companies; As Brocade has aquired a few companies and brought the employees from that company over.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen! Encourage open door policies with your staff.

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

Former Employee – worked at Brocade Communications full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I worked there for two different roll. Overall friendly environment, competitive salary and work environment. Good training (training provider team is nice) if you are entry level engineer. Great place to learn.

Cons – Everyone wants to become manager.
Not organized as I expected. No specific guide lines for new comers to start work on. Assigning all type of work to new comers so hard to catch up if you are not fast learner or just came out from school.

Advice to Senior Management – There is micro management that hurts some of the employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Great company, great market position, earning trecord profits.

Cons – Smaller market share but growing fast

Advice to Senior Management – Don't sell

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

Former Employee – worked at Brocade Communications full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – New Visionary CEO (change is in the air), great smart people to work with, headquarters office in SJ looks & feeling like your working in a luxury hotel, cafe food tastes extremely good, & base compensation higher than most competitors.

Cons – Need to get with the times, old school mentality still exists with senior leadership team, management team needs some serious work they don't know how to manage, and a lot of employees who have been there ALONG time 10 plus years that aren't bringing anything new and like to do things one same old way they can't think outside of the box any more (time for them to be moved OUT)

Advice to Senior Management – Move out employees who have been there forever and have stopped contributing more than just average. Your going to continue to demotivate new up and coming talent by having employees around who are nothing more than average.

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

Former Employee – worked at Brocade Communications full-time for less than a year

Pros – good product, flexible working schedule, a lot of very good people to work with. teams are very experienced. nice location and a lot of resturants nearby.

Cons – sometimes asked to work in Saturdays. slow career growth and some level of bad politics. some products with very old technology, so if are looking for latest and popular technology in the industry, wrong place.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend