Expand Networks Reviews

Pros

The company give many opportunities for people to advance; they give the R&D personnel, the space and time to explore new technologies, as time permits; there are several networking subjects, programming languages around, upcoming projects and much more. You can take part in all those activities, if you are proactive.
Besides that, Expand Networks has a really good work-life balance; usual days work are 10am to 7pm; if you are an early birder, you can come and leave earlier. Also, the company organizes many events to support the dullness of all jobs. An example for Expand's easiness is that when I first arrived to Expand, I was told I should be willing to devote weekends, if necessary; that notion was introduces as a mere devotion to work; I had only worked a couple of hours beyond my regular working hours, and I was compensated for them.

Cons

Expand Networks develops its platform on top of Linux using standard libraries. Therefore, as a programmer, you mainly integrate components into the platform and configure it. You do program; however, much of the code is devoted to configure existing software rather than creating new software from scratch. This is also the case as much of the work done is to deal with existing features and fixing bugs.
Another key note is that Expand, as a pretty small competitor to the enormous corporations (Juniper, Cisco, Riverbed, etc.) and from time to time has to accept peculiar projects; this tends to agitate the usual company worker as he skips from one task to another.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more assertive! the workers should be focus and informed so that they will feel connected with the company's path, its failures and successes. Try to keep the persons working on what they feel important; let them feel the work they do actually matter.