Challenging work but poor management - Anonymous employee Calix Employee Review

2.0
May 9, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This was a good place to work with good engineers and challenging work.

Cons

It is now poorly run by new upper management who are focused on just promoting themselves.

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Calix Response
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Thank you for your review and feedback. You are right, our R&D teams are the core of our company and we pride ourselves in the awesome contribution they have made and continue to have on our exciting offerings within AXOS, EXOS and Calix Cloud. Each of our R&D teams are engineering world-class development in all areas. Best to you in your new role and work.

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