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Symantec – “Think twice”

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May 15, 2009

2.0

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Symantec Senior Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA:   (Current Employee)

Pros

Potential to move between different groups, and each group is different

Cons

A lot of outsourcing to overseas
Poor compensation for low to mid engineering titles
No incentive to be anything more than average
Mandatory vacation in December

Advice to Senior Management

You can do better

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May 24, 2009

by Sadly Symantec cannot do better:

The reason the smart leave Symantec is that Symantec cannot do better. It is a meat grinder. You check your soul at the door and become a bland robot spitting out broken code to meet the inept manager's needs so that your product can shut down a nation of desktops.
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Oct 16, 2009

by Quoted for truth:

"No incentive to be anything more than average"
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Security Software
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