Linksys Reviews

Pros

god place to work, good place to work

Cons

Change, uncertainty, over again. Lots of technology to support.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't have any really. I think they do a good job.

Pros

Well known company. Stellar health care ESPP & 401k. Good HR Team. Fun people to work with. Flexible and care about employees.

Cons

In cohesive integration into parent company (Cisco). Constant product line changes. Shrinking market share., Obstinate attitude with partners. Quick abandonment of strategies.

Advice to Senior Management

Protect your space from competitors by better partnering with customers. Sacrifice price to gain share. Dramatically expand product line. Spin off the company.

Pros

Since it's part of Cisco, you can move around within Cisco

Cons

Pay ratio is less compared to the industry

Advice to Senior Management

Top management is not good.

Pros

Great Benefits - insurance, 401k etc
Flexibility - open to take longer lunch to run errands, work from home
Casual Environment

Cons

Bad communication between departments - it can be ver confusing and training does not exist. Pay is okay for what you are expected to do.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop the confusion between the departments, make them more transparent.

Pros

nice place. good to work. survivable. management strong but no communication

Cons

low salary high pressure competitive intimidation instead of motivation

Advice to Senior Management

work harder understand the employees

Pros

Good place to get your feet wet and leard about the industry. Exposure to many basic areas of the sales enviorment.

Cons

Not a signifigant chance of advancement. Poor intergration with parent company Cisco Systems. Quick and frequent abandonment of failed product lines.

Advice to Senior Management

Find your own path. Set realistic expectations. Acknowledge where you haven't applied enough effort and where you have strayed off course.

Pros

Good place to work but there as the company is aquired by Cisco

Cons

Incompetent workers and favoritism among employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to award employees based on performance....

Pros

Very good working environment for a technician/ engineer! Everyone is just so friendly and informative that I did not have any fears towards anything going on in the company~

Cons

None based on what I remember

Advice to Senior Management

Employees were predominantly Taiwanese as the company was found by a Taiwanese married couple, later sold to Cisco. Maybe it will be better to have more employees of other ethnicities

Pros

If you are interested in developing small electronic devices that people like to use, like routers or other home or small business networking equipment, Linksys should be an excellent place to be. Lots of little and medium size projects, and very friendly people.

Cons

Linksys has tended to farm primary development to shops outside the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Vastly improve QA. The high-end consumer products have been too complicated, unreliable and expensive. The company should as a whole figure out how to write and maintain product software. Staff should develop an eye for products that customers want to buy. Sometimes, the Cisco-level goals and ideals appear to distract more than help.

Sometimes devices like routers, which people rarely interact with during normal use, should have unobtrusive industrial design, rather than attempt to make a fashion statement; while other devices, like network radios, which people interact with all the time, should have been given some fashion sense.

Pros

Great environment
Good People
Things get done

Cons

Long days
Too many meetings - true of most larger companies though

Advice to Senior Management

What is going on? Personel changes are fine, but what is different? Communication is typically great, but there has been a vacuum lately.