Software Engineer in Product Development - Anonymous employee F5 Employee Review

3.0
Nov 4, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Industry Leader Coworker skillsets exceeded other places that I have been RSU recognition Annual reviews

Cons

Management turmoil - new CEO was fired, long time CTO is out Recent top to bottom reorganization in the Product group has set back several areas Emphasis on hard to meet project deadlines took priority to employee education, and it shows

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