Black hole - Solutions Engineer F5 Employee Review

2.0
28 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Stock performance / RSUs Wellness Fridays and response to COVID

Cons

- Consistently Fumbles acquisitions - Sales leadership is an Old boys club - inability to pivot to Software and NGINX. short sightness - "Modern Apps" , "adaptive apps" are all simply buzz words that f5 cannot address - failure to build a control pane

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
16 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Decent Views Decent Benefits Stock Options and 401k matching ORCA and pandaride Thirsty Thursday

Cons

Lower than standard industry pay Corporate culture weeds out those who don't toe the line Weak management with little to no mentorship High turnover, downsizing regularly No direction or accountability within or across teams No advancement opportunity / only senior positions ever available

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