Sandvine Reviews

Pros

Great people, free food and beer if that's your thing, fun events going on in the office. Lot's of opportunities to learn and work on innovative things. Things were definitely worse a year ago but the culture has been improving. Seems as though the dust has settled and people are happier.

Cons

Communication can be lacking, sometimes there are silos. Would be nice to have RRSPs.

Advice to Management

Be transparent and communicate downstream.

Pros

Great place to work. Fair compensation. Management recognizes and rewards hard work.

Cons

Company was moving away from hardware projects and shrinking the team

Pros

Strategic management. Good customers. Decent name in market.

Cons

Private equity run so the focus is more on profit than on growth. Top down management can limit the contribution allowed for motivated middle managers.

Pros

Sandvine has great products, marketshare and a go-to-market strategy

Cons

Do not take a sales position here. 'Bringing in the numbers' on a 30/60/90 basis with a complete disregard for the customer or sales person has led to 'high turnover'. Very tactical top-down sales push versus strategic selling is the focus. Some senior sales leaders never stop searching for something to over-analyze and micromanage. Under constant surveillance and inspection, this makes the sales team feel discouraged,...

Advice to Management

Bad senior leadership is causing irrevocable damage, hindering performance and creating unnecessary stress to employees and customers. A new company culture needs to be developed.

Pros

My team is very close and we get to work on some neat stuff, but if any one of them left many of us wouldn’t be far behind.

Cons

Sandvine is not what it used to be. We don’t really have a culture anymore. The days of being a “Great Place to Work” are so far gone. Executive leadership has moved to the US and it is a very different style than Sandvine 1.0. Very little communication and transparency. Only focus is on making money and if you are not a money maker you can consider yourself at risk at being out of a job. Mindset that anyone is “replaceable”....

Advice to Management

Making money is cool but so is treating people with respect. Don’t drive away good people.

Pros

- Salary is okay. - Benefits are okay - Free food pretty often - Free beer anytime you want it if that's your thing.

Cons

In my time at Sandvine: - I have been sworn at by managers (technically the one of the VP's) for asking if I could have access to a server for something. - I have heard other people managers throwing racist slurs around, not even behind closed doors. - I have been physically threatened by people managers. - I have received insanely little amounts of training, and then been expected to take on huge responsibilities...

Advice to Management

You seriously need to get a clue what is happening around you, or this company (at least the Waterloo office) will crumble. Plus, maybe next time don't hire racist, aggressive people -- or don't be surprised when lawsuits find you.

Pros

The company is full of smart people. The technology is interesting and you are faced with new challenges constantly.

Cons

Most of the knowledgable people have left. Management is not transparent about company performance, corporate objectives, and how products are used in certain countries.

Pros

Used to be: Great smart people Used to be: Startup like environment High-paced Great benefit

Cons

A bit stale technology with opportunities to learn, but not for all Uncertainty if you will be here another week Low margin result driven that results in zero investment in people and tools

Advice to Management

You are doing a great job to sell this company one day, it might have no smart people left by the time it happens.