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    Symantec Reviews

    Updated 6 December 2018
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    • "There is nothing work life balance in symantec" (in 74 reviews)

    • "You sometimes hear big news from CNBC or The Motley Fool before you hear it from upper management" (in 106 reviews)

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    1. Featured Review

      "Great people and management, excellent products,"

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      Current Employee - Senior Systems Engineer
      Current Employee - Senior Systems Engineer
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Symantec full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Culture, Products, Benefits, Management, Campus, Great food

      Cons

      I can’t think of any cons worth mentioning

      Advice to Management

      Keep doing what you’re doing. The culture here is better than any company I’ve worked for.

    2. "Senior Technical Support Engineer"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook

      I have been working at Symantec full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      benefit is good, workload is acceptable

      Cons

      salary is not competitive in the market

      Advice to Management

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    3. "Techical Support Engineer"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend

      I worked at Symantec full-time

      Pros

      Depends on the manager, If you are lucky WFH is an option, Health Benefit was good some point but over all it is market standard.

      Cons

      Changes too often, CEO and Sr. VIP level organization and process as well.

      Advice to Management

      It is important to look after internal employee for career growth. but it was missing on employee development programs.

    4. Helpful (2)

      "Used to be really good place to work until new management came in"

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      Current Employee - Territory Account Manager in Sydney
      Current Employee - Territory Account Manager in Sydney
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Symantec full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Good health cover
      Good story to sell
      Somewhat good work life balance

      Cons

      It's management way or no way.
      Old school methodology
      No culture to speak off
      Everyone is dry and non friendly

    5. "Good company and brand to work for"

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      Former Employee - Account Manager in Sydney
      Former Employee - Account Manager in Sydney
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Symantec full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Good product portfolio to sell
      Reward employees with good benefits

      Cons

      Politics to deal with in the organisation

    6. Helpful (1)

      "Shame about all the Redundancies.."

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sydney
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sydney
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Symantec full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Really good culture, and hard working, team. Gives you a real sense of working for a worthwhile purpose. Some excellent Security experts. Some roles give a lot of scope to work from home as needed. No micro management in my area which was pleasing.

      Cons

      Not paying up to market expectations. Not if you will be made redundant - more about when. Too much Management change. If you are going to make people redundant look to redeploy .

      Advice to Management

      Stop looking just at the bottom $$. Remember if you are constantly cutting from Technology areas ie : Support, once that experience goes you have holes in your Supporting experience and Customer's will notice. If you make people redundant, do look to redeploy within.

    7. Helpful (3)

      "Company is a mess internally"

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      Former Employee - Manager in Sydney
      Former Employee - Manager in Sydney
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at Symantec full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      The Health plan is quite good and grass roots team are good

      Cons

      Management is not listening, my personal exit after a long tenure was handled terribly, staff are overworked and asked to take stock instead of salary increases (which were not paid out in the redundancy package), massive redundancies across the board, constant high growth targets that are unobtainable with current staff levels.

      Advice to Management

      Listen to your staff, retain the loyal people, avoid the allure of outsourcing which is damaging your brand, stop chasing the quick bucks. Avoid turning Symantec into Bluecoat 2.0 which is apparent with the inside takeover of legacy BC personnel in senior positions.

    8. "great work place"

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      Former Employee - Technical Support Engineer in Sydney
      Former Employee - Technical Support Engineer in Sydney
      Recommends

      I worked at Symantec (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      -stabilized Tech support org
      -guaranteed work and life balance
      -good compensation comparing to other IT vendors for TSE

      Cons

      -There has been some changes in recent years

    9. Helpful (3)

      "Slow moving, outdated and most of it touches transforms to be a dud."

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Symantec full-time

      Pros

      - Good work/life balance, but at tech support techies had to work one weekend days.
      - Large brand with many Enterprise-grade products.
      - Selling off some of the products that didn't find into the vision (Veritas, anyone?)

      Cons

      - Training is non-existent, the tech support team is expected to learn new products on the fly.
      - You reach the glass ceiling in your current role, whatever that is and no chance for promotion to the next level.
      - As the result many can't perform and create major issues for the customers or company (SSL certificate debacle - multiple times... )
      - Clearly a sale-oriented company with no respect for technical people, quick turnaround in lower and mid-management team.
      - Many product this company acquires gets destroyed (Vontu, PC Tools, Brightmail, Verisign, etc.) Veritas and Netbackup almost got there, too. Feels sorry for Blue Coat already.
      - Laid off entire tech support teams and moved the jobs to India and China.
      - All the positive reviews coming out lately are from Pune and other parts of India or sales/HR from HQ.

      Advice to Management

      Low and mid-level managers expect to be laid off regardless of your performance. You can't make a difference at this company.
      Top level managers survive only if they meet shareholders' expectations.

    10. "very normal company now"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sydney
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Sydney

      I worked at Symantec full-time (Less than a year)

      Pros

      most managers were very nice

      Cons

      executives didn't have a clear vision and direction