Verisign Reviews

Pros

Friendly people
Structured systems and environment

Cons

Limited knowledge sharing by management
Frequent change in management

Advice to Senior Management

DOn't make frequent change in management

Pros

Package & Benefits are good. Should really appreciate the HR Initiatives for employees.

Cons

VeriSign India has manual work such as Data Entry & testing, In my journey I got a doubt whether I am a programmer or a data entry operator or a tester.

Managers are not enthusiastic and very formal. Besides the boring work Managers makes us very bore.

They always talks about others performance but I strongly doubt about their performance.

Advice to Senior Management

I don't think management is in a position to take advice.

Pros

Very good environment for the freshers, interns to learn new technologies in internet domain.
Facilities are very good.

Cons

Senior management is very poor in managing the teams

Advice to Senior Management

Consider the performance for appraisals

Pros

- Good place for solid technical work
- Stable work
- Good work environment
- Good benefits
- Willing to listen to employees

Cons

Slower pace of the work

Advice to Senior Management

Be aggressive in going after new business

Pros

Great benefits, interesting product and lots of flexability

Cons

Not so much room for growth and change

Pros

I worked for Thawte, a division of Verisign. I was there right after merger. It was an adjustment to go from Thawte culture to Verisign culture. But the transition worked well. I enjoyed my position and working for Verisign. But i believe it came down to my managers and employees i was involved with.

Cons

Seemed to be a lot of restrictions on dumb things pertaining to the authentication of companies. No use of Dun and Bradstreet for the Thawte office but ok for the Verisign Mountain View office for cost reasons nonsense. This frustrated customers.

Advice to Senior Management

Appreciate the folks lower down the rung of the ladder. They drive performation and change and ensure you have a job and for the most part an efficiently run company as they are the hands on people doing the everyday work.

Pros

Good benefits package, salary, location

Cons

Lack of communication between teams and management to employees

Pros

Verisign has stable revenue income. It is the market leader in domain name registry. The salary and benefits are very good compared to similar IT companies. The ESPP program is excellent. Here is Verisign, you have good chance to grow and the company encourages career mobility as well.

Cons

The recruiting process seems broken somehow. There are lots of good candidates on the market but the ones brought to us are not impressing. The company relies heavily on referral.

Pros

- Good pay, bonus & ESPP
- High technical exposure in work
- Good working environment
- Some real good genius managers

Cons

- Unstable middle and senior management
- Even many CEOs have quit without sending aideu mail
- Confusion in clear cut long term stratergies
- Sometime only techinical work left no fun activities

Advice to Senior Management

Need Clear long term stratergies
Need Higher transaprency in higher and middle manangement
Nee High committments towards employees interest not just board's thiniking stratergy

Pros

Excellent benefits and compensation. (Pay, stock options, benefits)
Incredibly talented and knowledgeable colleagues
Leader in their field, world class products & systems

Cons

Constant churn in Senior management
Opportunities for career advancement are incredibly limited for anyone below Sr. Manager level
"The Grapevine" is a faster and more reliable source of information than management

Advice to Senior Management

Engage "front line" employees directly; there's a significant disconnect in middle management
Be consistent with approaches to internal change and new initiativies