Optanix Reviews

Gosh, where to start. Well as the title of this review points out, please do NOT be fooled by the fake reviews that upper management writes glorifying what little good this company has left. In all honesty this place used to be fantastic for up and coming engineers looking to get their feet wet. Managers no longer care about growing engineers, they just want ticket pushers with little experience. When reviews state that Optanix is unstable, it is truly not a joke. Management has little to no idea what it's doing and has no concern for their engineers either. HR has held large conference calls with employees to let them go en mass, completely unprofessional. The lower level engineers are treated poorly by their supervisors who for the record all do not have formal management experience, and it shows. Those supervisors are in turn ignored by their leads and managers. I say this from experience. There is no concern for the well being and growth of employees. Upper management only cares about their bottom line, we've accepted this for years now. As a side note, engineers were encouraged to pass for sure our Cisco certs to maintain our Gold standard with Cisco. Like I said, they don't want or need talent, they need just enough to maintain their poor quality benchmark. There's a lot of talent at Optanix now who realize it's a sinking ship and are leaving while the getting is good.

* Still a lot of work to be done, with less people * Timelines is maybe too aggressive * "Senior Members" of Human Resources doesn't actually understand the culture * Top producers leaving on their own for better opportunities We are headed in the right direction, we are fixing the technology stack and product vision. However, with hard locked timelines and less resources it continues to be hard to deal with the amount of technical debt and still move forward. It's doable, but will be hard. We need to stop and fix the flat tires before continuing to drive. Unfortunately most of the reviews on the glass door are fairly accurate, but can be skewed towards the negative. The 5 start reviews are very obvious plants from HR to try to recover this page. Responses on glass door from HR to people who are feeling hurt or expressing their opinions is always condescending and disrespectful. Obviously when layoffs happen people are hurt and mad. However, HR has made sure to put stipulations into the severance contracts to never ever speak badly of Optanix on social media or loose it. The cons right now for me, is the current culture. Unfortunately it is one of fear and self interest. Our current mouth piece to the executive team on the culture is so out of touch, it borderlines on delusion. In 2018 giving us 3% match on 401k is like having internet. You shouldn't pat yourself on the back for that. I mean, i guess it is the best benefit we have? (doesn't start till 2019) I do believe that the "new" Optanix culture is one of self-interest, or at least thats the one our new HR department is promoting. There are not any promotions or raises, any promotions come from reduction in force or new hires. People are too worried about being laid off to stand up for themselves or others. This is unfortunate.