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      Ciena

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      Ciena reviews

      4.1

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (2,292 total reviews)
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      Gary B. Smith

      85% approve of CEO

      74% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Senior management

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      Ciena has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,292 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Ciena employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telecommunications industry (3.6 stars).

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      2K reviews
      4.0
      Mar 27, 2014

      Good place to work

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      flexible hours, friendly, technology leader. Ciena is a good place to work and offers competitive vacation days.

      Cons

      distributed teams across many countries, office space is cramped and overcrowded

      2.0
      Mar 27, 2014

      Major part of the quality work is Off-shored,

      It analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexibility. International Presence. Company seems to be growing

      Cons

      Ciena is not a place that will enhance your technical skills. Its a place to do some legacy ownership, and light work. The technical teams are Disorganized, disconnected. This mainly happens because most of the quality work is off-shored, with major control given to off shore teams. The vibes hence is on buying specialized skills from outside rather than build technical expertise, within, but in reality these specialized skills have little experience, and quite little tendency to share the work, or transfer knowledge to those internal to team. Less transparency and reliability witnessed on the culture of the company.

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