Symantec Reviews

Pros

- good benefits
- good people to work with

Cons

- managements just simply do not care about the employees
- no development opportunity
- very US centric

Advice to Senior Management

We really need a new manager.

Pros

Free food, lunch,fruits, breakfast
stock options
good infrastructure
cutting edge technology
good and intelligent peers in other parts of world.

Cons

bad politics which hurts.
bad retaining policy.
management dont understand much technical stuff in some business units. they rely on their subordinates for that. they dont know that their subordinates are making them.

Advice to Senior Management

please stop attrition. focus on retaining people.

Pros

Name recognition / cache. Opportunity (if you seek it out) to enhance your skills and abilities.

Cons

Very politically charged, emphasis on meetings, arguing over wording and minutae.

Pros

Good work life balance, excellent benefits and amenities

Cons

Compensation. Too many org changes

Advice to Senior Management

Too many changes are bad

Pros

* Too many things to learn
* Compensation
* Benefits
* Co-operative manager
* Good team members

Cons

* Cross-team collaboration (knowledge sharing)
* Few managers don't really understand what work-life balance means. My manager does :) but few others don't, which indirectly affects our team.

Advice to Senior Management

Please work on the cons mentioned above.

Pros

Great benefits package, flexible schedule with good work life balance

Cons

Silos exist between departments, everyone is out for themselves instead of working toward a common goal.

Pros

Work life balance is great
smart people

Cons

Salary is just OK
Do not have any child care facilities

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

good company , good salary, good work culture

Cons

depends upon project, as all projects are not good

Advice to Senior Management

every thing is good, no advice to management, they are doing good business.

Pros

Good work balance with good health benefit
Good place to start working in large corporate environment

Cons

Snr management very amature
Too many ppl that doesnt do anything at work and get recognization
Need to invest more talented people

Advice to Senior Management

Pls invest and reward the talented people and please get rid those people that doesnt actually have specif desk job

Pros

Great brand, lots of infrastructure to support your efforts - lots of people to go to in order to get work done. Good, intelligent talent, but constant acquisition and change make it tough to "dig in"

Cons

Incredibly process heavy company... there always seem to be new systems being set up - which is definitely rough. So many mergers and acquisitions, yet process around that for both internal and external communication is unsatisfactory.