Brocade reviews

3.1

64% would recommend to a friend

(888 total reviews)
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Lloyd Carney

48% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Brocade has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 888 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Brocade employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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888 reviews
1.0
Oct 2, 2017

A Sinking Ship

Recommend
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Pros

No real positives to work at this place. All of my experiences with this company were negative.

Cons

*Politics interfere with even the smallest of projects *Important corporate level policies are not in place, leaving downstream groups to flounder in ambiguity while they try to solve company level problems *Legal is monolithic in creating new policies *Corporate culture does not reward "Breaking the Status Quo," in fact management would prefer you remain a cog in the machine *You are a number to this company. You are not a person. I had the pleasure of sitting in a meeting with a Senior Director during a hiring phase. To paraphrase what he said: "I want to squeeze those students for what they are worth, because they are going to leave in a year anyway. Pay them as little as we can." *HR is not able to act effectively Examples: - A potential employee who was to be flown on-site to interview was once left in the lurch. He had to call someone outside of HR the night before his interview to frantically figure out how to get to San Jose after his recruiter forgot to purchase his flight. - Scheduling to recruit at a university career fair. After the fair was over, and at the wrong campus location. *There are forced breaks in the work year that require you to use PTO if you want to get paid. This equates to almost the full amount of your starting PTO at the company if you are a new hire. There will be little time left over for vacations, or personal days. *Little room for growth or opportunities for advancement. Career paths end up being more horizontal than vertical.

4.0
Sep 26, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You have the opportunity to work with extremely dedicated, bright, and innovative people in the Networking Hardware and Software industry. I enjoyed working with the team members on various cross-functional teams at Brocade. The culture is awesome, and the leadership is superb. The execs seemed to truly want to create a work environment where the employees were highly engaged and hired a consulting firm to help with this endeavor.

Cons

Brocade is in the process of being sold to another company.

2.0
Sep 16, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Brocade was a great place to work, great / smart people, work / life balance A few good people still left. Brocade has done well to those how have been RIF'd.

Cons

Brocade's leadership team just finishing up what started 5 years ago, a plan to sell out below market of 13 dollar mark... shame... dismantled a once appealing product portfolio which if deal doesn't close can not be saved.

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