Flexible, fulfilling, but still acts like a start-up which is sometimes not a good thing. - Director Ciena Employee Review

4.0
Aug 7, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible, good salary, ok benefits, nice offices in Linthicum MD,

Cons

Lack of processes/systems cause many manual and therefore time-consuming, error-prone activities. Lots of non-value add work due to lack of investment in infrastructure/processes. Lack of financial analysis. Accounting refuses to provide financial analysis to management.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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