senior software engineer

principal software engineer

site reliability engineer

software engineer

senior network engineer

What is the best part of working at the company?
The work was rewarding and I acquired new skills along the way. The people I worked with were some of the most talented, collaborative and motivated in my career. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not knowing when the next RIF is coming so the company can offshore our jobs to cut costs and lose all the intellectual property for the flagship product.

Attempting to transform the company flagship product from being specific to a proprietary platform to being cloud-based with leadership that knows NOTHING architecting a proper containerized product.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Everyone is expected to "be an owner" and therefore, no one is accountable.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Working and collaborating with outstanding peers.

Good place to work, but like all the big downtown companies now they have ridiculous / absurd return-to-office mandates. Employees show up, badge in, then go straight home. Why go into the office when all of your co-workers are remote anyway (most employees are in the field)? Everyone jokes that we're effective when we work from home, and lose a day of productivity when you have to go into the office. But, maybe that's not an F5 problem.

I worked remotely since ever and that is a great opportunity I got from F5.
Had opportunity to change job internally
Great colleagues and culture,  decent CEO.
The SDC team born from integrating  Volterra, Shape, Silverline is still not very well organized.

Overall is a great company to work for btw recently thre is a bit of a mess cause by reorg after April 2023. I believe things will normalize at some point

decent pay and benefits.. they brag about culture but not sure why. very woke, for good or ill. asinine return to office policy, though, because 80% of your co-workers are across the world, so you gottu come to work and be on Zoom calls just the same as being home for Zoom calls. Awfully full of themselves so if you're ok with pretention with good pay, check them ouy

After working 12 hours with minimal breaks management calls asking you to get back online as we were so short staffed. Then they hire two young people and have you train them and write procedures of everything you do, then they let you go. 

Within the last year, we lost our CMO, our SVP, and other VPs who we should coordinate with. Directionless, but lots to do. People are smart but motivation falling to the wayside after total collapse of structure, goals, and organization. 

The people and the work was a level of detail i enjoyed.  Processes and timelines needed a lot of work, elongated to up to 3-4 months sometimes.  

I don't have much more to say.

pretty good place to work.
guidance from the leadership can be better. 
most of the people you work are great humans and knowledgeable experts.
lower level manager are exceptional

The job is good, and it is nice to be remote. The pay could be better.  It is interesting to learn cloud networking and to work with a new team.  I enjoy working with my team.

Human first culture and have amazing work life balance at least before I left (2021)
I heard there are layoffs going on, not too sure about company's feature

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Senior software engineer 23 salaries reported	$183,060 per year
Principal software engineer 23 salaries reported	$254,085 per year
Site reliability engineer 16 salaries reported	$198,777 per year
Software engineer 26 salaries reported	$188,713 per year
Senior network engineer 9 salaries reported	$158,846 per year

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