Symantec Reviews

Pros

benefit is good, workload is acceptable

Cons

salary is not competitive in the market

Advice to Management

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Pros

Good salary and benefits (health, fitness, share plans) Nice people to work with

Cons

Many senior management roles were in remote location - sometimes felt they were out of touch of what was happening locally

Pros

Good team and work culture

Cons

A lot of changes in management

Pros

Salary and benefits are good

Cons

No structure, management and high turnover.

Advice to Management

Needs better training, polices abs procedures and less changes.

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.

Pros

Good product portfolio to sell Reward employees with good benefits

Cons

Politics to deal with in the organisation

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.

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.