Ciena reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(2,290 total reviews)
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Gary B. Smith

85% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Ciena has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,290 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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2.0
Aug 12, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Casual Work Environment 2. No need to inform your supervisor for Leaves, just take and then say "unplanned leave" 3. Full of extra curricular activities, nothing technical. 4. Informed (not Mock) Fire Drill every 6 months 5. Annual Party thrown at Five Star Hotel 6. Developes everything in software viz. DSP, drivers, embedded applications, user interface in india center only, but you won't get everything to learn because you will be tied up with just one module for years, after all they want to develop expertise for themselves. 7. Very Good in hand salary

Cons

1. No career growth 2. Either No or very high work pressure 3. Every hour verbal reporting, email reporting is additional 4. Management hardly knows people managment, just puppets of their foreign counterpart. 5. No defined criteria for promotions, may get based on your criticality 6. Reward program is extremely poor, basically management does not know when to reward an employee, for them it is always expected performance.

3.0
Jul 11, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Facilities provided by the company to an individual employee are good Infrastructure is also good.

Cons

Lot of legacy code.. Challenging work is given to some specific people only.Others have just side work. Documentation is not encouraged for their products and code as well.

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