Emulex Reviews

Pros

Fun place to work, nice offices, nice people, strong engineers

Cons

Lack of communication from management, leaders of the company, and staff, no idea if your position is ever safe, things changing constantly, lack of tools

Pros

Great opportunity for advancement and looks like solid growth prospects

Cons

work is hard and can at time put pressure on work/life balance

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the communication

Pros

Good friendly co workers to work with and pleasant environment generally, nice cafeteria and the cubes and office setup are good.

Cons

Not much innovation or cutting edge work that happens at emulex. People are old fashioned and there are so many directors, some of them who have only 1 person working under them.

Advice to Senior Management

Too many directors and software engeers get paid too less, engineers are not given enough credit for their work at emulex.

Pros

Slow pace, and low expectaton. If need be, you have the time to learn things that are of intrest to your manager, but it will be done all on your own and expect little aid and assistance

Cons

Management is not aware or interactive with the progress or expectations of the employess. It seems to be that it is there way or the high way, and they are always right

Advice to Senior Management

Employees need the opertunity to grow and to be trusted. What works for you may not be the best or the perfered way.

Pros

Nice and Helpful people at Senior Engineer level. Immediate managers are good but helpless because of Senior management.

Cons

Bad treatment to contract employees. Mostly a reference based company. Interns are forced to work for menial tasks and career growth is very limited if you are not in a right team.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop exploiting contract employees.

Pros

Accomodating to work style, but it depends on mngrs perception of telecommuting. Some frown on it, some welcome it. Great people to work with in development groups. People are awesome with great work ethic.

Cons

Difficult to determine how managers decide how much raise is given to employees. Seems like they've already picked their favorites and if you aren't on their top list, you'll never be even though you work your butt off and meet your goals. Highly aggressive schedules.

Advice to Senior Management

See cons and come up with ideas. This is a difficult problem to solve and probably applies to any company - not just Emulex. Help people be their best and actively ask individuals their concerns and find ways to address them.

Pros

Technology, small work force, very skilled managers.

Cons

Compensation and other benefits are not attractive.

Advice to Senior Management

compensation and other benefits are somewhat overlooked.

Pros

Not a lot to say about Pros. Corporate office is located in a nice part of Southern California. They have decent benefits.

Cons

Way too many VPs, Directors, and such. Very top heavy without having much responsibility. Hard for lower level managers and engineers to get things done effectively.

Advice to Senior Management

Lose some of the fluff in the VP/Director level. Empower the lower level managers and engineers. Listen to people at all sites, not just the main site in Costa Mesa.

Pros

Low pressure, nice computer setup

Cons

No reward for performance, questionable HR policies

Advice to Senior Management

Learn that employees are valuable and reward good performers

Pros

Good technology to work, Nice Low level engineering team to work with

Cons

Not Good salary, Not very good management in San Jose

Advice to Senior Management

Take a time to help employees to grow and compensations needs to be in par with Industry and job location.