No work pressure, but also no learning and no development. (are you a devOps? see the cons.) - Devops Engineer 8x8 Employee Review

2.0
Jun 12, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Relaxed work environment - Not much pressure - Office parties are nice - People are nice - Lot of career opportunities because folks are leaving. - Java developers seem to have nice learning opportunities.

Cons

- CEO was not popular between employees. - People were not going to the office (not even for parties) - They removed the stock options. If you're a DevOps, also consider the following: - You will be doing mostly configurations in "in-house" developed platforms, and projects implemented by someone else - You will have access to change virtually nothing - Documentation? What's that? Maybe the person that implemented that certain tool still works in the company... - No real access control in place: you can either have zero access to AWS or have access to everything and nobody cares. - Getting access to platforms is a nightmare. After one year of working in 8x8, the team still had different access levels - Would you like to create a DNS entry? You probably will need a whole month of meetings and pinging people around to get it. - You will probably be supporting legacy systems.

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5.0
Sep 11, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

So far the benefits are just amazing

Cons

Frequent layoffs. But no cons in general

2.0
Jun 5, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

*Good health insurance *Company "mental health" days off *Work/life balance *LinkedIn learning

Cons

*You will have to chase several people through several teams before you actually obtain the assistance you are looking for, however once you get to the right team/person, be prepared to be talked to like you're an annoyance rather than a colleague. A lot of "pass the buck" type of mentality, and "that's not our responsibility" attitude, then discover the people/person you're looking for doesn't work there anymore. *They reduce staff under the guise of "redundancies of the role", when they're really moving the exact role to Philippines or other countries as they can obtain more employees for that same paycheck. *Will hire new staff, have you train them, then reduce the positions within that team after you've trained them. *Upper management will promote not based on merit but nepotism, and it's not a secret but up in your face, and will tell you "its not personal". *They will shove the "we care about our people" culture down your throat, when in fact they DO NOT care about their people, especially the knowledgeable ones, they will eliminate those as soon as possible to get fresh blood in, with no knowledge or expertise, and often in other countries so they can pay them less than here. Truth. *Management is top heavy, always has been, no change in sight for this down the road.

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