Great place to work, but tough times are coming (if not already here) - Sales Ops F5 Employee Review

The biggest con is that F5 is a dinosaur in the technology world but is stuck in denial about that fact. The world is shifting to the cloud, and while they talk a good game about making that shift, recent product development priorities say otherwise. The most recent hardware platform release was supposed to start revenue growing again, but I'd be surprised if next week's earnings report shows that to be the case. The purpose built security appliances appear to be a disaster. They saw the cloud wave coming, talked a big game like they were pivoting, but addiction to hardware margins caused them to miss it. The other con (closely related to the first) is that they care so much about what the Street thinks of them that every decision is a short term one to maximize the current quarter. No long term thinking or willingness to see short term pain for long term gain.