Brocade reviews

3.1

64% would recommend to a friend

(886 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 886 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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886 reviews
3.0
Apr 9, 2015

Great benefits but poor people management.

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Pros

The Benefits are great! Volunteer time off, tuition reimbursement, 5 Weeks Vacation for 10 year + employees and great onsite fitness center.

Cons

It just seems that Brocade is becoming like what I've heard of Cisco. The mentality from management seems to be that people are expendable and that there are 15 more lined up for that job so just deal with the sizable load that should be relegated to two+ employees.

4.0
Apr 6, 2015

Software Engineer

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Pros

Good work life balance and strong aspects of growth

Cons

Management has to motivate employees

3.0
Apr 1, 2015
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Pros

During my tenure of my career at Brocade, I found that the company is very employee friendly. During recessions, while other companies were doing pay cuts and layoffs in 2008-2009, Brocade gave bonuses as long as it could, and instead of paycut, did something called MUTO - Mandatory Unpaid Time Out (like 5 days of unpaid vacation that was like a win-win situation for both employees and company). It also encourages a lot of physical exercise for the health of the employees, provides a fantastic gym with several free trainer packages, etc. Is a go-green company, and also has philanthropy in mind, and helps out a lot of causes. Also provides 5 days of voluntary leave for the employees to do some volunteering activity. Ofcourse, all this was under the leadership of the CTO at that time, who was Michael Klayko. I wonder if the situation still remained the same after the change of leadership to Lloyd Carney

Cons

One and only Con - Politics, both inter and intra group politics

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