Sandvine Reviews

Pros

-supportive work environment -lots of opportunities to learn and grow -Management team is great to work with and learn from.

Cons

It's nice to see women are being promoted into leadership roles in the company and it would be great to see that trend continue.

Pros

Flexible Remote Management/leadership Understanding Sandvine is a great place to work, they’re well managed and truly make you feel valued.

Cons

Not many cons as it is a good place to work. Salaries are a bit low Vacation and benefits are average, maybe even below average

Pros

I have been working at Sandvine for more than 8 years now, on a couple of different countries/locations, and managed development for multiple product lines. The company has been constantly evolving both its technology as well as people and process wise. I have been part of transformation from waterfall to agile with scrum, going from 1.0 Architecture to 2.0, evolving from DPI to Network Intelligence and now Service Innovation. Lately Sandvine has been making good progress towards support of 5G deployments, as well as Cloud - both VNF and CNF, and I believe it has good momentum. As a new Software Engineer joining us you will have the opportunity to work on various platforms and learn new skills. You will be challenged and encouraged to grow. If you are in the beginning of your career you will find others more experienced ready and happy to help, and first level managers which are good coaches. Management has an open door policy, so talking to someone at my level about your experience and ideas to make things better is possible any given day, and appreciated - we only succeed together! If something like Cloud Native or Kubernetes has been on your list, now you can work on it. If your interest is more towards Analytics and Machine Learning, we have open positions for that as well. If you think Security is interesting, we are evolving that. We know you have many choices for your career, and part of us being here is to make sure you can contribute and share in Sandvine's success and future as well!

Cons

Remote work only at present time but that will change once pandemic is over.

Pros

It may be suitable for anyone interested in a mediocre job that provides no career growth and pays little. Bonus tip: Your job can be outsourced to India, so stash some cash already :-)

Cons

In short this is a sinking ship, stay away. If you can not find any job "WAIT", do not join this crap company. Engineers: It's not a place where people engineer products. It's where engineers just sit and waste time. If you join this company and then later try and look for a new job, one question is common: What is the biggest challenge that you solved? You won't have any answer for this one. You will learn almost nothing in this company. So don't even consider this as step for something better in future. Middle management: These people are equivalent to "shepherds", their job is to get something done out of demotivated engineers. Anyone who can herd sheep is promoted to manager. Even worse, people who only know how to herd sheep and have no engineering talent whats so ever are managers at this company. And these "shepherds" constantly undermine good engineers who can make a difference. So that makes more demotivated engineers and people leave. 99% of good engineers have left. Now there is just sheep left, waiting to become shephards. Upper management: Now this is the cream of sandvine. No outsiders allowed. You don't get promoted to VP etc. You got to be a school friend, best buddy with other VP's (outside sandvine). Nepotism is not a strong enough word for this group. Upper management is a group of toothless people and their job is to keep their job safe. So they do ideas / products that they know will fail, but continue just so that they can buy a few more years for themselves (not company). Execs: Have no idea how to run a company. One disaster after other. Burning VC capital, lol that must be fun.

Pros

Some of the people are great, but without offices or travel, it's not enough to stay.

Cons

Upper management and the senior leadership team refuses to be held accountable and aren't interested in making a difference or fixing issues. There is a clear exit strategy: put everything they can into profit, regardless of ethics, in order to make the company look appealing enough to sell. Clearly, it hasn't been working in their favor as it's now 3+ years into their new "strategy" and they are still struggling. It's an Old Boys Club where nepotism will get you further than competence. Many good leaders have left because of this and it's clear based on the amount of turnover over the last 2 years that others feel the same. If you aren't a "yes man" to the senior leadership team, your days will be numbered or you will get demoted. Ethics don't exist here. Look at what happened in Belarus and that tells you everything you need to know. HR is incompetent and sides with management in all cases. Don't brother bringing up anything that needs to be addressed because it will get shut down if one of the "boys" gets wind of it. There is no culture here and it is a shell of what it once was. HR clearly pushes people to write positive reviews, so take that how you may. Salary and benefits leave a lot to be desired. There is no work-life balance. You are expected to work weekends if your manager contacts you, even if it's a non emergency and can wait until Monday.