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
Jul 9, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Brocade does some interesting work in a field with cut-throat competition...it's a miracle the company has survived this long. Brocade is good at utilizing commodity OTS SW (linux and so on) and specializing it for various products.

Cons

Uncertain future, plus the options backdating scandal really tarnished the stock. Too buzzword intensive...plus the marketing dept. uses questionable tactics...we should really be differentiating ourselves on our products, not badmouthing the competition.

5.0
Jun 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Brocade values teamwork and that's what makes working here fun. If your a "teamplayer" you will fit in fine. The work here is leading edge and we are tops in our field (Fibre Channel switches). Additionally - the benefits are very good with EXCELLENT vacation time (6 weeks a year for me since I've been here over 5 years!!!!!!!!!). The pay is good and there is a very good Bonus program which has been paying out very well the past couple years. If your in the Hardware field, we are one of the few places in Silicon Valley that's still showing some creativity - primarily since we make our own ASIC's. That's what sets our products apart from others.

Cons

It's fast paced - so you need to keep up.

4.0
May 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Work/life balance (Company encourages work/life balance. Employees have an option to telecommute whenever necessary.) - Compensation & Benefits (salaries are very competitive with industry standards. Profit sharing or Bonus provides additional benefits. ESPP is offered to provide employees a discount on the company stocks) - Vacation policy (one of the best vacation policies. employees get anywhere between 4-6 weeks of vacation per year. the max out rate for vacation is very high.) - Strong management (this is not a company where organizational changes happen often. If organizational changes do happen, it is done for a good cause and employees are not left dissatisfied by it)

Cons

- Little career growth opportunities (The company's structured such that there are not that many tiers in the organization structure.) - Very little training/development or educational resources made available (company doesn't offer many educational/training options to employees and is very restrictive in paying towards education/training) - Recognition and Rewards are rare (while recognition and rewards is largely dependant on management, company doesn't encourage all managers to follow this technique to boost employee morale) - Team building efforts are not strongly practised (some teams have team building efforts like once in a 3-6 month period. most teams don't have any team building efforts.)

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