Citrix Systems Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Work Flexibility
Free and Inexpensive Food
Nice working environment

Cons – Highly political environment, run without rudimentary controls over what a senior manager can do if they want to get rid of someone. They won't fire them outwardly, but constructive dismissal is practiced routinely in certain parts of the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay a little more attention to what the kids in HR are doing to people.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The atmosphere is pleasant and the company is managed well. The technology is interesting and employees get a good view of the strategic direction of the company.

Cons – I wish they where more open to working remotely, especially since it is a company that develops technology for this purpose. Not that this was a policy within my team and not the company as a whole.

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

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – The work environment is "fun". Lots of free food, lots of junkets, lots of little perks meant to boost morale. It's good place for middle-aged tech folk in the hump of their careers with mortgages and young kids, not hugely demanding intellectually and pretty flexible as far as offsite and flextime work goes. This is a place to start off a career for a year or two, or to take a 2-3 year break from the normal demands of higher-functioning tech companies in the Valley. Not a place to hang your hat for more than a few years, or you will lose your skill-edge and you will become demoralized. Or you can just be a mediocre stale "lifer" and enjoy the free food and drinks and call it a career. The Santa Barbara location is the best place -- it's the core of the intellectual chops of the company, and the overall vibe in SB is really quite nice. Santa Clara, or Florida -- not recommended.

Cons – Very poor leadership. Almost fickle to the point of childish. Upper management is treated as if they could change course at any minute, and at great cost to potential salary upgrades, bonuses, and desperately needed new hires, quick and rash "gut, from-the-hip" decisions by the CEO and his ilk has affected Citrix quite negatively. Frequent re-orgs are a given. This happens at every well-capitalized huge company to a certain degree -- at Citrix it's the rule, not the exception. There is absolutely no incentive to innovate or change processess. Innovation happens solely through acquisition, and that process is also poorly managed. Integration of newly acquired products into existing lines is an engineering nightmare -- nobody vets the acquisitions at a technical level and engineering is just expected to make it all work. A lot of B-School narcissists in the VP rank who drink the Kool-Aid of "technical fungibility" without having the slightest clue as to how their products are actually built, or work. A lot of "magical thinking". I marvel at the stock value of a company that really is just a conglomo-cluster of disparate acquisitions. The products themselves -- with the exception of the GoTo boondoggles -- are bug-riddled with very little effort invested in usability.

Advice to Senior Management – Scale back acquisitions and do a thorough clean-up and audit of existing management and initiatives. Put forth a management vision that has executional legs, not just a bunch of slick-sounding slogans and buzzwords that dodge accountability. In English: have the balls to put yourselves and your people to account. There's way too much deadwood up and down the chain.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Decent compensation and good work life balance.

Cons – There are way too many politics to deal with. Middle upper management likes to hire people that could never threaten their job leaving a void below them.

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

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great company culture, flexible works hours, amazing work life balance, laid back work atmosphere

Cons – Extremely political. Only senior members in the team will be rewarded. Meritocracy is a joke. So if you are ambitious and looking for faster growth or performance based rewards, certainly this is not the place.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat every member in the team equally and give more importance to performance rather than seniority

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – avg company...name is good for the worldd.

Cons – once you are in is not that great. No work ethics. People here do shout and yell...higher management and HR does not care...Very Selfish Corporate.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Citrix has a great culture. We truly embody the work hard, play hard attitude. Promotions are tied to performance for the most part, although you do have to meet some baseline time-frames as well (typically you need to wait at least 18mo since your last promotion).

Cons – There is disconcerting trend where management is focusing more on the present performance and making decisions in a very reactive manner. In the past, we seemed to be a much more forward-thinking company.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop being so reactive to minor fluctuations in the present. We need to make decisions based on long-term goals.

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

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

Pros – Citrix is more than a job .. Citrix js a family

Cons – Super stressfull, but enviroment is super cool

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

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems

Pros – Ability to make a change
Collaborative culture
Not hierarchical

Cons – Compensation
Company still has a split culture (west coast, east coast)

Advice to Senior Management – The company has a great opportunity in the market, and good talent - with swifter decision making and greater alignment of culture, the company has a strong opportunity to win.

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

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

Pros – Good benefits, fun work, great atmosphere, low ego place to work. All senior staff is pretty accessible. Free drinks and snacks, good cafe.

Cons – The product that the company runs on is a bit narrow, getting everyone to work on Windows. That said, my group, Netscaler, makes boxes that run everywhere on the internet, speeding up web transactions for large internet companies

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