Stable, but too big and slow and business-heavy - Systems Administrator II F5 Employee Review

3.0
Mar 23, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stable company with amazing benefits. Being an industry leader with a positive cash flow makes this a safe and secure employer that will be around for a long time. The health care offered is absolutely top-notch with good 401k match, RSUs, and ESPP programs. There is a large and diverse range of opportunities and teams throughout the company with opportunities to move internally to other teams/groups.

Cons

Teams and groups within the company are incredibly siloed, which leads to a lot of "not our job" kinds of mentalities or throwing things over the wall rather than collaborating. Deadlocks or bottlenecks due to lack of collaboration are common. Many large projects end up with incomplete or unreasonable requirements from non-technical business people or those same people push ill-advised technology decisions onto technical people to implement that do not and cannot meet the given requirements, when the technical people would have been able to do better given well-drafted requirements and left to implement/design/choose a solution.

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5.0
May 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

* I enjoyed the collaborative team culture. Everyone was supportive and willing to help each other. * The work-life balance was good, and the overall working environment was relatively low stress. * I had opportunities to work on large-scale enterprise products and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Cons

* One area I felt could be improved was compensation growth. As my responsibilities and technical skills expanded, I was looking for opportunities that offered stronger career and compensation progression.

4.0
Jul 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, wellness and mental health considerations.

Cons

Organization seems to be influx about where they are heading. Makes it hard to create goals for the entire org and get proper direction.

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