Calix – “Great place to learn access technologies; great place to grow one's career”

Pros

Competent top management
Managers who care for people
Great teamwork; camaraderie.
Politics is at minimum

Cons

Tendency to hire very experienced people
Limited growth for mid level managers
Does not get enough interns/college hires

Advice to Senior Management

You've got great vision; but that vision is not communicated down to the frontlines. Carl's vision is not cascaded to frontline and we sometimes don't know where we are going or how we are contributing to bottomline