F5 Networks Reviews

Current Employee – been working at F5 Networks full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Excellent focus on work/life balance, opportunities to travel and work with great people.

Cons – Growing pains right now impacting the organization can be frustrating and disruptive.

Advice to Senior Management – Make a decision and stick with it.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at F5 Networks full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Balanced life and work, not very lay-back, not much over time as well. There are some talented engineers as well.

Cons – A lot of office politics in some groups, a lot of complex relationships, brothers, buddy, previous company co-workers. Some managers are very good at politics and kiss ass, no knowledge or work ethics.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at F5 Networks full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Small number of layers in the organization
Hard workers everywhere keeping everyone from feeling as though they are the only one rowing
Feels like family in many groups adding to enjoyment of being here

Cons – Need more vision related messaging coming from above to help relay to customers

Advice to Senior Management – Keep John McAdam. He has created trust with the employees and an approach-ability to the executive team.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at F5 Networks full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good location
Fantastic benefits
Decent facilities
Good reputation (for now)

Cons – Unrealistic expectations from VPs to come in evenings and weekends to meet unrealistic release goals made my management, only to cut features to make the release date. This happens with every release.
Very noisy atmosphere that makes it difficult to work.

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to plan better and stop punishing employees for unattainable goals.
Making ALL dev employees come in on weekends to meet goals they aren't contributing towards is ridiculous.
Award system is completely unfair and arbitrary, investigate.
Middle management is ineffective and apathetic. Do not just promote employees to mgmt because of seniority, promote because of leadership and people skills.
Do NOT transition us to cubes that offer less privacy and more distractions than the current cubes. It is already difficult enough to concentrate. Sure fire way to decrease productivity.
Allow development team to work from home without penalty!
Free pizza does not make up for loss of family time.

Former Employee – worked at F5 Networks full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Compensation, culture, people, workspace and mgmt

Cons – Little to no cons that I can think of at this time.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at F5 Networks full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – I am a 7+ year employee at F5, and with every year I find the challenge of work very rewarding. The people at F5 are extremely talented, and fantastic to work with. I have recommended many past colleagues apply here at over the years.

Cons – Sorry, there are none. I'm really trying hard to come up with a single one, and am drawing a huge blank.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at F5 Networks full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – F5 has a great work-life balance, with many work challenges, and top notch people. Exec team is world class and keep us moving in the right direction.

Cons – With so many things that F5 is trying, sometimes it is hard to know what everyone is doing, so communication could use improvement.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at F5 Networks full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good stuff, really good company going at the right pace.

Cons – Too much snacks in the breakroom - watch out for the weight gain. Also needs to be careful with the SDN space.

Advice to Senior Management – Really good job - keep it up.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at F5 Networks full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Best Salary and reasonable benefits and best people work with

Cons – Not good track record in acquire companies

Advice to Senior Management – Have better strategy team

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at F5 Networks full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very flexible hours.
Very hands-off management.
Great company benefits, and a couple employee recognition programs that are second to none.
Annual company sponsored vacation for 50 employees to tropical location. Selection is based on one of the employee recognition programs I mention above.
Good salary, aimed at retention.
Actively avoids laying off staff when product lines are cut. Recently this meant repurposing the roles of the better part of an entire remote office, but repurpose them they did, and I'm not aware of any large-scale layoffs (or any at all, for that matter).

Cons – All those benefits occasionally require some long hours (depending on position, of course).
Currently migrating towards a more "efficient" cubicle system, which really means that sizes of the cubes are smaller than what has been used so far.
Not much else to complain about; F5 has it's act together and a lot of emphasis is placed on employee satisfaction.

Advice to Senior Management – Stick with the current cubes.
Other than that, change nothing, F5 is awesome.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company