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 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 – none that can be called a Pro

Cons – Everything else which they say is a benefit.

Advice to Senior Management – Pull you heads out of your backsides

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 Citrix Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Gym on site, cafeteria and free healthy snacks

Cons – Leadership is not in touch with the organization. It's all about marketing.

Leadership keeps hiring people from the outside from larger more established organizations to try to resolve internal process issues that can't be fixed because they have promoted managers into Director positions who are Citrix lifers who have no experience in running larger operations. These Directors are threatened by new hires and they refuse to collaborate to make changes that would benefit the company. The work environment is very hostile and secretive and there is no work life balance. Be ready to work nights and weekends and still get nowhere.

Working remotely is frowned upon and viewed with suspiscion. Systems are not integrated and there is very little collaboration between departments for projects which makes the systems even less compatible.

By far the worst company I have ever worked for.

Advice to Senior Management – Replace your Directors and leadership with people who understand the high tech and how to run larger and more streamlined operations

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems full-time

Pros – Benefits, perks, free food, friendly people

Cons – Worst place/team to work in citrix

Advice to Senior Management – Treat all employees equally and try to create a positive environment

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – nothing , just all pomp no substance

Cons – all pomp , no work , managers think they are ruling over their support staff

Advice to Senior Management – try to be more humble

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 Citrix Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Citrix has 'okay' benefits and the pay is not bad.

Cons – Citrix does not make work enjoyable. I actually dread coming to work each day. There are expectations to be a globe trotter on a moment's notice and I've had my work schedule modified several times and on short notice.

The amount of work that I'm expected to complete each month is based on the number of problems customers request help with. Instead of hiring more people to cover the work we're just expected to do more work. Because of this we've already lost several people and thus the problem is getting worse.

Advice to Senior Management – I'm not seeing the happy, joyful place at my level that seems to eminate from HR. My boss seems to make up new policies at a moment's notice to set expectations for his employees. He also makes optional company training mandatory and then doesn't give us time to complete this training during our normal work day. If you don't want to lose employees I'd suggest that you start asking questions of the lower-level employees and make sure that they are getting the same vibe that you want Citrix to be known for.

With all the inefficiencies I've seen in the company and the number of bugs in the software there is no way I'd recommend anyone do business with the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems

Pros – free food, transport, technology is good

Cons – No career growth.
Managment is crap

Advice to Senior Management – Heavy politics going on in india. Managers are hired based on politics rather than ability.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems

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.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems

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

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend