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Arbor Networks

Acquired by NETSCOUT

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Arbor Networks Reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(47 total reviews)

Brian P. Mccann

36% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Arbor Networks has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 47 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Arbor Networks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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47 reviews
2.0
14 Dec 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers are smart and hard working. Always learning from people in the office and we work on products that make a difference in the world. everyone is very nice and actually fun to be around.. High hiring standards which seems to just raise the bar and quality of everyone. Work-life balance is great. Employees are trusted and respected.

Cons

Communication, business practices and vision from NetScout parent company is terrible.. Local management in Ann Arbor used to be excellent now they all seem like they given up on trying to make things better. I don't blame them. I've seen a manager in tears trying to deal with the dreadful decisions from NetScout. Local Arbor senior management has become powerless to change anything to the positive anymore.. Arbor used to be proactive on almost everything and was truly a dream job come true. now just forced to react to the next absurd backward thing NetScout demands. No promotions for years when they were promised but senior leaders get promoted. Cannot promote a QA Engineer however. No hiring any more. No one from NetScout explains why decisions were made. Lunches taken away. Morale is terrible. It is saddest of all things..

1.0
13 Feb 2018

Arbor Networks is a Dinosaur

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Dinosaurs were pretty cool when I was 6 years old

Cons

Senior management is too busy resting on their laurels to effect any real change and improvement in the culture or products that are desperately needed to not fade into obscurity in the space. Haphazard approach to entering new product markets, fear of promoting good people that aren't yes men, putting an incompetent sales engineer in charge of the security team and promoting an average sales engineer as CTO (AFTER forcing out a CTO who brought a fresh perspective and ideas to a stale business) to avoid hiring qualified person(s) that would expose the mismanagement and cluelessness present are just a few of the numerous systemic problems present. Steadily driving all talent out of the engineering and security teams to avoid admitting mistakes made by senior management or giving deserved promotions that would mean fewer yes men in positions of power. Three years of minimal- to no-raises company-wide due to poor NETSCOUT performance, despite record Arbor performance is disheartening and unfair to all employees - tock that has a 5-6 yr maturity rate and is constantly declining in value is not an acceptable substitute.

4.0
29 Nov 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great colleagues, fun environment with many opportunities to learn new things. Employee benefits are great, free snack wall and soda machines. Fun company events. Great work/life balance.

Cons

Since the Netscout acquisition, the quality of working at Arbor has gone down due to their meddling. Engineering morale is constantly going down because promotions and raises have been withheld multiple times since the acquisition, feels like we are punished for not hitting higher sales numbers than the past year in which we had phenomenal sales in a market we've already saturated and currently dominate. I'd love to return to Arbor were it not for Netscout.

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