Management by Fear in Tech Support - Technical Support Engineer Ciena Employee Review

2.0
Feb 20, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Being associated with the leading edge optical communications technologies is exciting. Working with colleagues and customers all over the world is a great experience. Benefits are pretty good compared to other companies (from what non-Ciena folks tell me).

Cons

Recent job structure changes to tech support roles is very challenging for most of us. Especially because many of our colleagues were fired with no explanation as to why they were chosen nor how the survivors can know how we are performing to prevent being next. Not a great deal of job opportunities offered internally. Most new hiring being done in India and Canada.

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Ciena Response
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