Calix Reviews

Pros

Great Benefits, Work from Home Great hard working co-workers whom point in more than 50hrs a week

Cons

Absolutely no career development. The job you interview for is not what you are going to be doing. 90% of the job description is incorrect. Talent and Culture needs HR employees whom can revamp the Talent Management and create Employee Engagement (because there isn't any). There is also no line of succession. If someone leaves or is laid off. Good Luck! Many talented employees whom once helped build the company... are now gone and left are Senior Management whom have no idea how to get the job done. Too many Directors and VPs and not enough team to support the initiatives. NO Raise in the past few years. "Bonus" is a joke! NO Job Security - There are lay offs every 2 weeks. NO Vision or Direction Company Morale is at its all time worse. Not surprise why so many are also leaving the company.

Advice to Management

Provide employee with clear direction and vision. Explain what the company's goals are. Provide your employees with career development/training (that is not just compliance training). Stop hiring more directors and lay off the hard workers whom keep the ship running. Marketing and Sales needs to stop lying about how great we are doing with Calix 2.0.

Pros

- Dog-friendly office - Occasional work from home - Great coworkers - Office perks - Good health care coverage - Break room provides endless coffee and drinks, fruit once a week. Now providing donuts and bagels some Fridays.

Cons

- No raises in 2 years - Sporadic, tiny bonuses - No job security--they're cutting valuable staff left and right with no plan for replacements or workload sensitivity. - No work/life balance. Meetings could be as early as 7am and as late as 9pm. New venture partnership with India company makes meetings during valuable family time a regular occurrence, and heavily east coast upper management means early meetings... for those on the east coast. - Weekend work is expected. - Marketing and sales promise the world, but there is little support for actually getting the promised deliveries to the customer. - They will work you to death and then ask that you work even harder.

Advice to Management

Stop with all the marketing speak about how great we are and how we're Calix 2.0 when all we see is the ship crashing and burning around us. Offices are closing and widespread layoffs leave everyone fearful and stressed, but we're expected to keep cheering for Calix all the way, and to just work harder with no reward for our dedication. I used to be proud to say I worked here, but now when people ask me where I... work, it's like I told them my dog died. "Oh you work at Calix? I heard things are really bad there."