Citrix Systems Reviews

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

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

Pros – Fairly relaxed company. Friendly company, especially within engineering. Not a dog eat dog culture. Have acquired several very good companies with intelligent people and great products. Slightly above average at integrating acquisitions.

Cons – Company run by Sales and not by the CEO. A Florida boys network. Same Florida cronies alternate positions at the exec level. Company is sales and marketing driven. Not product oriented and hence all organically created products are complex and lack quality. Product managers of non-acquired products (organic products) are very poor, especially at the vp and sr dir level. there are lots of mediocre talent. Upper management is poor. Citrix is unable to attract good talent. this is especially true at senior management level. Any good talent has come in through acquisitions, but most leave as soon as their golden handcuffs come off. Lots of favoritism with existing poor managers given preferential treatment (leading to many junior VPs) over newly acquired talent with proven track records. Salaries are poor compared to the rest of the valley. This is partly due to it being a Florida company which doesn't understand the valley situation.

Advice to Senior Management – Get some!

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 – flexibility, culture, opportunity, design thinking

Cons – compensation, career development, compensation, salary

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 7 years

Pros – Good benefits and this company and its technology have enormous potential. Virtualization is the future for every IT organization and citrix is in a good position to capitalize on that.

Cons – Good people with years of citrix experience are often overlooked in favor of outside hires. There are cases of this all over Citrix.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop overlooking the talent that has gotten you this far.

Yes, I would 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 10 years

Pros – Products are innovative and on the cutting edge of technology
Citrix understands the software business
Lots and lots of opportunities to learn and expand your skills

Cons – Too many people are afraid of failure so they prevent significant work from getting done
Stale leadership at the top

Advice to Senior Management – Accept more risk and allow failure to occur as people learn from their mistakes

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 7 years

Pros – Citrix is a vibrant company that is constantly changing and does a great job of helping employees manage that change.
We are constantly working with new technology, and we're encouraged to try new things and be creative in what we do everyday.

Cons – We can use a little help with career development programs - currently there is no clear way to move around the organization and no program to expose employees to other facets of the business.

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 less than a year

Pros – Great Atmosphere with Leaders that care. The company is growing at a fast rate allowing for your career to grow easily within the company.

Cons – I haven't been in the company a long time, but in the short time I've been there I would say that there are many things happening within the company, which is great. The only problem with this is there are so many activities happening that some weeks it can be difficult to do your job, and regardless of what's happening you always have to reach your numbers.

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 3 years

Pros – - Flexibility for some employees
- good pay and benefits
- many great people to work with on the individual contributor level
- great place to work
- high respect for the individual
- generally nice people to work with
- employees generally empowered and trusted
- well balanced for a company this size at this level of growth, operationally
- recognition for outstanding efforts

Cons – There are actually very few cons, most of these observations are isolated and also apply to most companies.
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- politics and CYA running rampant
- human resource allocations in key operational areas not keeping up with growth
- a lot of talk about ability to design and grow your own career, but difficult to be considered for other positions, especially outside your own department, most roles hired from outside rather than recognizing and developing talent from within
- inexplicable hiring, unqualified or inept people for many important roles, in this economy and for such a great employer it should not be difficult to hire better
- few employee growth, career enhancement or training offerings
- lack of accountability in leadership and management, no one wants to recognize, call out, admit to or openly correct mistakes
- hierarchy enforced caste system. if you're not in management, a common perception that if you're not given as many benefits and opportunities and are expendable
- very little career advancement opportunities unless you're in the upper echelon or inner circles, then sometimes people are promoted to roles they are not qualified for or in quid pro quo
- inequality in work load management and poor strategic allocation of resources
- greater need to recognize, promote and retain their best talent in the ranks
- some departments and teams overworked and can't get resources, others have more than enough resources and a great work-life balance
- asked to cut costs at bottom of hierarchy while waste is rampant with sr. management and execs
- disconnected and ineffective marketing considering the size and spend of marketing department. marketing and sales departments disconnected
- products slow to improve. lack of real innovation, same old products with few new features and not competitive
- perception of total disconnect between Sr. and Exec leadership and what's going on at the front line - lack of partnerships with other companies and integration with other products. Missing out on strategic business development with 3rd parties could impact long-term growth and profitability
- long-term strategic vision not well or clearly communicated, growing concern among the ranks on direction
- middle and upper management only want to hear good news, lack of effort to address real issues
- poor new hire orientation
- no distilling or reinforcement of corporate culture, not well communicated

Advice to Senior Management – Keep Citrix Great! Hire better, smarter, passionate, genuine and more inspiring people and make efforts to communicate and encourage what is mostly a great culture. Recognize talent and promote from within. Get connected to the people on the front lines who work with customers every day and ask them what they need to do their job better and enable them to offer better service and support for customers. Solicit anonymous feedback and share it openly, take action on recurring themes that need to be addressed. Instill accountability, have leadership openly admit where improvements can be made.

Yes, I would 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 7 years

Pros – Wonderful coworkers, and some great first level managers.
Engineering managers (at the levels where I worked with them) have excellent technical ability.
Engineer-friendly culture - being a "geek" is good.
Do a good job of getting rid of the occassional hiring mistake.
Extremely flexible about hours, locations, etc.
Use their own products, which work well for things like remote access
They seem to be good at marketting, profitability, growth etc.
Better than average at integrating acquisitions without destroying their culture/ability to be effective. 3 years ago I would have said "Great at integrating ..."

Cons – Support departments (HR, facilities, IT) are getting bureaucratic, paternalistic, and generally interfering with getting the job done. Uniformity is now trumping effectiveness. This appears to be an ongoing trend - still not at an extreme level, but painful when compared to 5 years ago.
A lot of conference calls between departments separated by 12 hours of time zones (California and India) which generally involve half the participants working in the late evening (9-10 PM) local time

Advice to Senior Management – Rein in the would-be bureaucrats in facilities etc.

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 less than a year

Pros – Great organization with wonderful co workers.

Cons – Wish for more outside training opportunities

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the great work and offer training often.

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