IronPort Systems Reviews

Pros

We had a real dynamic, innovative and experienced team. Full of sales professionals that showed respect and allowed each other to grow within teams. The technical team were highly competant and would work all hours to try and win deals

Cons

Only downside is small but impacted heavily. Certain individuals caused a great team to break up.

Advice to Senior Management

If you have great talent, DON'T let them go!!!

Pros

Awesome company, job, culture, technology

Cons

none really, hours can be a challenge but ultimately rewarding

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the good work

Pros

diverse culture where people from all around the world come to work together. If you like to get things done then this is the place for you, some areas like support or QA are probably under appreciated and have weaker managers but most people are pretty nice and willing to help others learn.

Cons

You are expected to pick understand things quickly and learn on the job, if you can not perform within a quarter you will be replaced, although now that we are part of Cisco that might change. Cisco has also brought more red tape to the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop importing Cisco red tape that is not helping us.

Pros

There is a great working culture and belief in what we are doing is making a difference. People are generally pretty sharp but there are some folks in middle management that are very disappointing.

Cons

Some areas are still way understaffed.

Advice to Senior Management

They really need to re-evaluate some of the middle managers.

Pros

IronPort retains a ridiculous number of of bright people, providing a largely idiot-free workplace populated with people who aren't interested in stepping on others' fingers as they climb the corporate ladder. It is, by far, the most collegial atmosphere I've ever worked in.

Cons

Engineering seems to reorganize randomly; it's better than it was only about half the time. Reorg decisions are made at the highest levels, and apparently don't take lower-level managers opinions into consideration.

Additionally, the CEO has become more and more absorbed by Cisco; it's apparent he's losing touch with his roots. I suspect he's getting pressure to integrate more, but bringing the best Cisco management into IronPort is lowering the average IQ of both companies.

Advice to Senior Management

You've hired some of the brightest people in the Bay Area; let folks do their jobs and stop shuffling their cubes around to suit this weeks' concept of order.

Cisco would do well to leave IronPort on its own. It's still nimble, and doesn't need the extra baggage.

Pros

Very smart people to work w/, good company culture

Cons

seems to promote people of Caucasian decent, and if you aren't white, you are left behind

Advice to Senior Management

be clearer about future w/ cisco