5.0
Dec 17, 2009
Current employee
Mountain View, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
-great leadership development tools and programs -good, talented people -great salary & benefits -interesting customer problems
Cons
-very management heavy...lots of bureaucracy, silos, unbalanced say/do ratios. You need a committee of at least 5 VP-level folks (Engineering, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, and Service/Support) to make even small decisions. -has lost its way as a product company, or at least has decided that it wants to play a different way. The new sr leadership team doesn't have deep experience creating & winning with products so they're focusing on acquisitions. As a product person, if I wanted to spend my time integrating offerings & companies I would rather work for Cisco, HP, or Oracle...