Slowly sinking - Engineering Apigee Employee Review

-If you are a Ebay/IBM/BEA employee with close ties to Apigee management from the same companies, you might do well here. For others, it's tough luck. -The Insights acquisition(20 mn USD) was a terrible move. A lot of the top brass in Insights were then forced out or left. -Too many new IBM-ers in Analytics/Insights who just don't have the knowledge. They are unable to come up with ideas to solve teething issues. -Engineers and even some managers who work hard find no opportunities to go up the ladder. Instead higher management plays a game of musical chairs by moving their favorites amongst the same old projects/silos. -Company is really a marketing machine. Behind the marketing veneer, you will find few good engineers who are stretched trying to keep all the infrastructure in place. -After the massive reverse split ( and the resulting scale up in employee's options prices ) a lot of employees are either completely underwater or have enough money in equity to buy a used 2000 model corolla. -From a RSU perspective, good for employees joining now. You can negotiate RSUs and potentially make more than the underwater employees. On the other hand, company does not even talk about how it is going to retain engineers who started before the IPO date. -Company spends money on a lot of frivolous things and bleeds cash. Just look at the past financial statements. At this rate, if the company does not turn profits in 3 to 4 quarters, they will go the way of MobileIron. -With the entry of Amazon and Azure into the API management space, Apigee is going to get squeezed. -Company tries hard to make new products - but these either don't scale well or are too limited to be of any real use ( eg: IOT enabling SDKs ) -Many talented, top engineers left in the last few months because of the above reasons and this is going to cause a lot of pain.