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Redback Networks

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An interesting place to work right now if you can just put up with the brokenness - Engineer Redback Networks Employee Review

2.0
Jul 2, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It's a very exciting time to be at Redback, since they were acquired by Ericsson about 8 months ago. There are going to be lots of technical opportunities and interesting work, at least in the short to medium term.

Cons

The current management brought Redback to the brink of bankruptcy and were then bailed out at the last minute by Ericsson, so they're still doing exactly what they used to do, except they never really had to learn from their mistakes.

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5.0
Sep 25, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

People were easy to work with and fun job

Cons

There were too many 80 hour work weeks

3.0
Aug 23, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The salaries are generally pretty high. Work roles and responsibilities are somewhat flexible; if you want to learn something new and you have time for it, nobody prevents you from digging into it. The patent program is rewarding. You can develop your skills here if you don't need much hand-holding.

Cons

Management is very reactive and has a hard time doing anything new. The company does not encourage innovation except in some superficial ways. Managers do not understand the product very well and only a few are technical. Some groups are swamped in work while some groups are quite overstaffed. I've seen both sides.

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