Citrix Systems|Citrix Reviews

Pros

You can reach out to top management, but nothing will actually be done. Office Location and Facilities which include gym, snacks, lunch....

Cons

Immature managers who thinks desks are for resting legs. Managers and Director who have technical capaibities comparable to a fresher, but are very capable in systematically targetting people, even though a senior manager was made to leave and half the team left in a six month duration, encouraging group politics, dividing and encouraing groupism still continues. If you are a technical person and expect career growth or dont like to attend day long meetings without actually discussing anything, think twice.

Advice to Senior Management

Teams which treat technical talent as commodities, will find it really difficult to fight the competiton. Managers and Director are a role, basically to facilitate a product growth, not authoriative dictators.

Pros

Very smart people (even managers ;), nice office with Table Tennis (I think that you should not work in company without Ping-Pong ;). Good balance between work and private time. Very nice attitude for family file.

Cons

Salary could be better. Corp IT is far from perfect. Communication between teams working on different product is not ideal yet (but improving).

Advice to Senior Management

Better handle acquisitions.

Pros

Benefits, employee treatment and compesation

Cons

Family day and Holiday parties has been cut back tremendously

Pros

- Free fruit
- Free coke cans
- tennis table in the kitchen area
- Dublin a nice city to live in, office in good location

Cons

- tech support is a dead end job with little or no career
- job experience almost impossible to be "sold" outside the company
- you get the expertise of a product specialist, not of an IT professional

Advice to Senior Management

I think some managers got promoted when the company was growing fast, and they do not have real management skills

Pros

Management does seem to care about the employees, which is better than many places I've worked where it is obvious that management doesn't give a dam* (or hoot).

Cons

Unfortunately, there is little attention paid to career or other kinds of advancement. I see the same people doing the same thing year after year with little change. Some people may be find with that, but not everyone.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should listen to employees more than they do. It seems like most of the communication is top-down, and very little the other way.

Pros

Free food, pickup, drop off, good technology.
Flexible timings
Work life balance.
Social Activities
Onsite opportunities depending on the team.

Cons

COL G2P is mostly driven by politics, if you know how to play politics, you can survive, else dont expect career growth or appreciation for technical capabilities.

Advice to Senior Management

Team Management should encourage technically capable people, and avoid favoritism and politics. Should trust individual team members and let engineers take technical decisions. Top management should identify and interfere with politics of middle, senior middle management, and try not losing very talented people.

Pros

Not much to get in the way of pure development, plenty of support, great attitude, amazing work environment, the feeling one can do anything is fostered. Simply put, the best place I've ever worked.

Cons

Could do a better job with physical resource logistics.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you're doing, continue to innovate, continue the way you are treating employees and contractors. Great things are on the horizon.

Pros

The culture and people who work in Citrix are to a very large extent, self motivated and competent. Because of this, the culture is fairly not political. The interviews take atleast a month to close and that shows how serious they are about getting the best people.
The salaries are very good. The technology is some of the best in town.

Cons

Many of the directors in India are not technically good. So, the managers are allowed to do the job.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop thinking that you are a small garage shop making Netscalers. Citrix is way beyond that. Get technical directors in and don't lose the business you have.

Pros

- Fast paced, but with flexible working hours
- Open culture, higher management is very approachable
- Great benefits and decent compensation
- Free food and snacks
- Environment of trust and respect
- Good work life balance
- Lots of opportunity to grow

Cons

- Collaboration with other teams in Bangalore needs to be improved
- Intra company job shift is difficult at times
- In house training sessions are not conducted that often

Advice to Senior Management

Be aggressive and take more risks; Citrix is very well placed to take lead in the cloud and virtualization space. Focus more on innovation and new products.

Pros

- Great products and great technology
- Great technical crew in the trenches
- Excellent leadership by Mark Templeton (but surrounded by insecure leaders)

Cons

- No succession plan in place. After Mark, what? Too many power centers and petty politics, without a single person capable of the necessary vision
- Doesn't work well with other geos despite expansion. Very US focussed in terms of opportunities and rewards. US teams work hard to prevent other geos from shining
- Flight of senior management recently is cause of concern. Citrix response was to force another chaotic re-org! (sample this: a key group has a married couple with direct reporting!!)

Advice to Senior Management

Stop living in 1990s when Citrix was a small company mainly out of FTL. Realize that a bulk of your people are outside US now, and you must provide them same respect and opportunities as the US folks. Please hire true leaders and not just self-serving managers, before you go back to being a small single-product company