A10 Networks reviews

Most of the financial problems (declining rev, rising costs) were caused by the engineering, IMO. Engineering leadership (including CEO) always made you feel frustrated. They don't generally listen, and speak with logics few people understand. Some managers liked to bark in the ears to drive people to work harder. Too many random projects and quality couldn't be maintained. Big projects were pursued due to political reasons, and even everybody knew it's useless, it had to be worked on. No product management, at all. Vision was built in the cloud - never think about execution. Moral was getting lower and lower, but senior management thought they could turn it around just by talking.

FIELD SALES LEADERSHIP needs stronger people in the field. LOUSY REGIONAL SALESPEOPLE who think they can just pester prospects after a "demo", then collect a PO and lean entirely on their SE is a critical fallacy and a recipe for tech turn-over, something this company cannot deal with, especially with respect to the growing confusion in the current product lineup. Hire GROWN-UPS; not little kids in over their heads who want to whine to mommy & daddy. SERIOUS SOFTWARE QUALITY ISSUES bubbling up over last 2 quarters, but are now mostly "on the mend". It is worrying to see that core product mis-steps have had several long-term customers dump A10 to move to competitive solutions after being burned on ops issues with these products one too many times. If you cannot release a product where EVERYTHING JUST WORKS, then DON'T RELEASE IT, DON'T TALK ABOUT IT, DON'T POST IT ON THE WEBSITE as "GA" or "EA". Just DON'T. SHARES/OPTIONS UNDER WATER by 2X due to crappy forecasting and subsequent Wall Street punishment. Shares ARE undervalued, but I would have thought that board and C-Level people here would have had some experience with taking a company public so everyone could profit. I guess not, or their profit-sharing ideas are a sham...not sure. COMPENSATION - frozen salaries for 24+ months? Even for those of us selling despite all the above? REALLY? CURRENTLY, there are many more cons than pros. Came on board looking long-term home and options that'd be worth something. Too many growing pains here that undermine core product focus and if not fixed SOON, the outlook is quite bleak.