SonicWALL Reviews

Pros

- Friendly people
- Work was diverse

Cons

- Used to provide lunch, not anymore

Pros

1. Sonic Wall, Bangalore has improved a lot over the recent past and is a fun place to work with benefits like free food, free transportation facility and medical insurance coverage.
2. Proactive HR management with good policies, good domain knowledge and response
3. No micromanagement if you are a performer
4. Good work life balance

Cons

1. Politics at high level management but not in India
2. There could be more interactions between groups which can make sonic Wall function as one entity

Advice to Senior Management

Retain the core and the Leaders

Pros

There are a lot of opportunites at SonicWALL if you are willing to reach for them. Often those opportunities require the usual amount of politicing, but the opportunies are there if you choose to take them. Pay is fair and communiction is open for the most part.

Cons

Documentation and guidance can be spotty at times, but that can also spin to a possitive (see opportunities in Pros section). Cross department communication can be difficult at times depending on the departmnet.

Advice to Senior Management

Mix up the managment team. Bring in new players from other companies. Top layers of management have all been together for 5-6 years. Time to mix it up, and reach farther to the next level of growth.

Pros

Decent pay, benefits, 401K match

Cons

Management has a lot of ideas and gets started on new ones prior to finishing old ones. Need to complete things prior to engaging in new ones.
Political!

Advice to Senior Management

Look into staff. Are they adequate? If not, why did you hire them?

Pros

Ok at times; was better before we were bought by bankers

Cons

Unrealistic quotas and no advancement opportunities

Pros

- WorkLife balance could not be better.
- Great Manager in my case. The only real good thing actually.
- Can get time off at any point.

Cons

- Executives are very vary of risk and hence no investment in game changing products
- Growth prospects are near nil
- Little or no challenge at work.
- Salary is way below the average of the industry

Advice to Senior Management

- Invest in the future.

Pros

Good to start as fresher
Continuous learning - depends on self effort also
Given training if required
Fair in work distribution
Flexible timing and WFH option - work life balance
Free Cab and food facility
Clean and nice work place

Cons

Pay not upto the mark
Employees are not getting much benefits compared to other private sector companies.
Compensation increment also is not up to the mark.
Management is not bothered to retain the talents for long duration.

Advice to Senior Management

Can provide good food :)

Pros

Can learn something --but purely on self interest

Cons

Very poor employee care.

HR team and management needs to start from LKG to learn what is employee care . The have to improve and learn a lot from a lot of other good companies .

These people don't know what is good management and employee care . All they are concerned about is making money (even by betraying employees on silly benefits --cheap behavior)

They brag a lot as if they are "THE BEST COMPANY" in the world , but after entering inside you will realize you are in hell .

Be very careful in your salary negotiations , Don't even expect any promises they make to come true .

The manager are well trained by management to act with employees and betray them on the benefits (but extract most out them --absolute "professional 21st century slavery" by wicked ruthless management)

They are happy to do anything to motivate employees (false promises) "but absolute care to minimize the money spent towards the benefit of an employee")

short term vision

No work life balance .

Advice to Senior Management

Please be open to admit an accept the bad anti-employee practices and be ready for changes

Give up the poor attitude of being adamant to old practices. Learn to respect employees an treat them fairly

Take initiatives to bring about changes --don't just be like cowards

Don't succumb to politics

Provide independence to employees an don't treat them like school kids

Pros

At least in the engineering team, they are very flexible on working hours and the office is usually empty until 10 in the morning.

Cons

Low salaries. Most likely due to poor managers who cannot evaluate people's capabilities properly. Little communication between teams. Virtually no possibility of advancement. Poor organisation and operations.

Advice to Senior Management

Better salaries, less talk, more action.

Pros

good platform for freshers good work environment

Cons

small company,less employees,one branch in india

Advice to Senior Management

no