Infoblox Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Infoblox

Pros – Everyone seems to care about each other and the community also!

Cons – Certainly it is lots of work

Advice to Senior Management – Keep focus on customers and employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good product
The people there are easy to work with and friendly. The work schedules can be flexible.
Good medical insurances.

Cons – Long work hours(can be 14+ hrs). They expect you online all the time. Manager may call you over the weekend.
Pay is below the market. No pay raise for 4+ years.

Advice to Senior Management – Consider a pay raise for the employees.

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

Current Employee – been working at Infoblox

Pros – Good product
The employers are easy to work with and don't mind to work overtime, overnight or even over the weekend to achieve the goal.

Cons – -The VPs expects 60+ working hours per week.
-Pay is 15-20% below market price.
-Very political at the engineering-management level.
-Wasting $$$ on luxious parties or giveaways instead of giving people a reasonable raise.
The above said all were for full time employees.....

Coming to job offers for students it is worst company that ever seen as start up.
-The $$$ wasted for parties can be used for sponsoring H1 to hard worked which will be good for company.
-Till date the number of students worked/working (Engg) for Infoblox are 7 but only got 1 H1
-Point to be noted: Also there are 3 more interns which have worked for Engineering only under 1 manager which were relatives of the biggies(EVP and VP of Engg.) Poor manager no option to raise voice nothing but to accept

Advice to Senior Management – Company's success not only include the product sale, but also includes the H1's done by the company. Sincere suggest is to do few H1's before going to public which is good for company growth

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Infoblox

Pros – Small company mindset and always customer comes first. Encourages professional work environment, yet very friendly and open office policy where you can walk up to any executive/upper management and exchange your views freely.

A clarification or note about "sweatshop" comments : There are 300+ stake holders(fellow employees) believe in hard work and work hard towards a common goal. If you don't believe in that mission statement then probably you don't belong to Infoblox family. Work/personal life balance can't be enforced by a company policy and it is an individual that need to take care of him/herself. You can take the camel to water, but can you force it to drink?

If you still think Infoblox is sweatshop, then probably you are not a startup material and you should consider not to waste your time next time and find 10000+ employee company and probably you will be happier.

There is a game room (ping-pong table and pool table), TV room and workout place. Free coffee, free dinners and FREE SNACKS!!

 I am still an employee at Infoblox after 6+ years and I am confident to say I am still HAPPY!!

Cons – Communication across the different functional teams can probably be MORE open and transparent, and seeing growth pains which is an expected phase of a successful company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Infoblox

Pros – Engineers are given plenty of opportunity to bring their innovative ideas into the product, such initiatives are highly valued and appreciated. The company also ensures that the talent is recognized and are being duly appreciated/recognized in different forms. The company has proven leadership and talent at all levels, and there is a strong focus on team collaboration and team chemistry. Within the teams also there is peer respect and professional courtesy, a place where you can learn and apply your product ideas.

I saw a negative comment on this board, and felt it necessary to respond, as Managers here are very supportive and mature. Managers take every step to go above and beyond to satisfy the employee requests, in all aspects. Engineering Management makes sure to encourage every individual in their career growth.

I am very glad to be part of the Winning Team.

Cons – As expected with any startup, work is demanding and indeed challenging.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the Good work, and have the full confidence on the Management with their experiences.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Infoblox

Pros – Infoblox is a very successful company with strong leadership. Contrary to some other observations on this site, Engineering is a well-managed environment where planning is very methodical. Like any startup there have been demanding periods, but the company has grown to the point that schedules are predictable, work/life balance exists, and individual achievement is rewarded. The company is innovating, and there are opportunities to (and funding for) work on new technology. The level of teamwork is very high, and the technical leads are highly skilled and very giving of their time.
Having been present through many of the stages of evolution in this company, I can honestly say that the company has never been better poised for success.

Cons – The products themselves tend to be very mission-critical and there are some very large and demanding customers. This is both good and bad. From a company success perspective, this is a good problem to have. From a tolerance-for-error perspective, this can be challenging at times. That said, there is a high level of diligence in software design, implementation, and testing, and the product is fairly mature (i.e. pretty solid).

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Infoblox

Pros – - good product,
- long time with the company engineers are experienced.

Cons – - very un-cooperative egineers,
- interesting/creative work is done by the engineers that are with company for long time, unwilling to share the details or give a chance to the newcomers to contribute substantially.
- very political at the engineering-management level.
- when critical issues arise, the urgency (to remediate) upon those responsible is uncoordinated.

Advice to Senior Management – I think you know well what is going on for so many ears now, for that reason I'll pass.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Infoblox

Pros – Smart colleagues who are passionate about building great software.

Cons – Managers treat you like dirt and drive you like slaves. Pay is very low (20-30% lower than average) compared to rest of Bay Area but they say they compensate by offering more options (which may be worthless) and a bonus (which may be 0). There is no work-life balance - the VP expects you to put in 60+ hours a week. You are not given a chance to do a good job - as you are constantly switched between projects but are expected to have zero context switch downtime. You are forced to commit to artificial schedules that are contrary to your gut feeling, and, backed into a corner if you disagree. When the project goes over schedule (as you knew it would), you are forced to stay at work until it's done, to keep to the schedule (yeah, you don't get to go home until it's done!).

Ever hear of Labor laws, Infoblox? You've been violating labor laws for years now!

Advice to Senior Management – When you treat your employees like dirt, expect to them to produce dirt instead of a product.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Infoblox full-time for more than a year

Pros – Continuous challenges and opportunities to thrive. There is little to no internal competition for exceeding performance expectations. Collaborative and supportive environment within teams.

Cons – Pay a bit below average. Different departments tend to be more isolated than they should for a company which is still growing and proving itself to the market.

Advice to Senior Management – Put key values before politics. Some hires have yet to prove their value, other than their name and supposed reputation in the industry.

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

Former Employee – worked at Infoblox full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work- Life balance was good.

Cons – didn't have any salary increase for a couple of years. Salary I think was a little below market rate.

Advice to Senior Management – have regular salary review

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