Culture was good, degrading day by day - Senior Software Engineer F5 Employee Review

3.0
3 Nov 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Good salary for freshers and new hires - Very good work life balance - Plenty of leaves - Free lunch and snacks - People are good

Cons

- Legacy tech stacks - No learning and growth - No career progression - No merit based promotion, you need to complete n number of years to get promoted, no matter how well you have performed over the year - Frequently changing policies are no more employee centric (like shifting of quarterly bonus to annually) - Managers play game but you won't notice. They are well trained to manipulate employees in diplomatic way - Frequent layoffs (includes high performers too) - Plenty of leaves, but people are not taking (management should motivate to take off) - People showing off their work by being active on teams and git on weekends and during late nights (honestly, we don't have that much work) - Managers expecting (though not forcing) everyone to join late night meetings (even if we are optional)

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5.0
5 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

they are serious about creating a great work culture.

Cons

none that I can think of

5.0
30 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* I enjoyed the collaborative team culture. Everyone was supportive and willing to help each other. * The work-life balance was good, and the overall working environment was relatively low stress. * I had opportunities to work on large-scale enterprise products and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Cons

* One area I felt could be improved was compensation growth. As my responsibilities and technical skills expanded, I was looking for opportunities that offered stronger career and compensation progression.

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